I was wondering what the metal grining noise was..

[rys99grandam]

HARMONIC BALANCER ( CRANK SHAFT PULLEY ) FAILURE!

I Work on this 2000 grand am, complained of belt squeaking and all of a sudden the belt lost its pull and nothing worked!

Replacing the belt I discovered this!

Rubber Piece Damage, and Bolt Was Torque-Able! Oh whats that, a new belt? :D
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rythetallguy/DamagePic2.jpg



As you can see how its messed up and not allign with the ac pulley to the right.
http://i89.photobucket.com/albums/k209/rythetallguy/DamagePic3.jpg


To the Dealer Friday, 240 bucks for replacement and computer " relearn " with part!

Hope this helps with anyone experiacing a squealy belt followed by a failure, or metal ticking, grindingish noises.

[nice96gt]

Damn! That's no good! Perfect time to do an underdrive pulley install :D

[04alyGT]

Uh oh, i have a griding noise every once and a while, coming from that exact area

i'll have to check that out asap

[rys99grandam]

Originally posted by nice96gt
Damn! That's no good! Perfect time to do an underdrive pulley install :D


Hah! Not my car or else I would!

[coupe]

I have never seen that happen on a 3100/3400.

[rys99grandam]

On this car? I always expect the worse. Previous owners did not take care of it. The Condensor is bent, front suspension is shot, and the current owner doesn't want to spend money and my time fixing it.
I have replaced every vacume line, I have replace battery cables batteries, calipers, rotors, pads, window parts, sensors, bunch of stuff. just keeps going on this downward spiral, its leveled off for the pasr 6 months and this just happened, so Im hoping that it.

Like all parts, everything wear. Im suspecting it was not tighten correctly from factory and it took it 115,000 miles to explode, like this.

The 3400 engine has a self adjusting crank and stuff so it requires no additionals weights to keep it balance. Im just hoping its just a one time deal, and no more.

The Harmonic Balancer they call it. I guess it went out of balance and burned.

[rys99grandam]

Okay So I had the car towed today, I told hte towe driver DO NOT START THE CAR. I KNEW I SHOULD OF PULLED THE BATTERY CABLE, anyways, the PULLEY IS NOW HANGING 1/2 way OFF I can see a space inbetween.

Stupid people. Cannot Follow Simple Instructions and Geico Insurance Sucks, They only pay for the cloest pontiac dealership. This just happens to be the one that messed my car up bad. So I had the car towed down to a pontiac dealership who does it righgt but takes 8 hours in the process to do it.

Blah!

/end rant