Wassat noise? oh SON OF A...

[Spook50]

Yesterday as I'm driving home across the state, I'm about 15 miles out from home and I hear what sounded like a plastic bag *whoosh* up underneath my truck. Didn't think anything of it and got home just fine. Today I hear the exact same noise when I go to pick up my sister and take her to the clinic (she boogered up her neck again). This time I get out and look under my truck while it's running and I can't find anything wrong at all. So I drive her to the clinic with no problems. Well her fiance gets off work and she was supposed to drive him to the Uhaul place so he could rent a moving truck and drive it back to their house. So I say no worries, I'll go back to the house and pick him up. Well as we're on the way to the Uhaul place, I hear the noise AGAIN. This time when I park, I hear a faint *tick tick tick* under the hood that didn't sound like the valves, so I pop the hood and there was my (shredded) A/C belt sticking into the cooling fan making the ticking noise. Turns out the first time I heard the noise was when it first let go, then each time afterward it was getting snagged by the fan/alt belt and getting shredded even further. I'm not worried about losing the A/C belt, since it's still not warm enough to need it here (fortunately it wasn't running when the belt let go), but it damaged the fan/alt belt pretty good and that's the one belt I can't fawkin get around here ANYWHERE!

And I have to drive back to Spokane tomorrow. I'm more than just a little pissed at the circumstances here

 

[Cruiserdrew]

Can't get the belts??? Try the local Napa warehouse or your Toyota dealer. At worst, the dealer can get it the next day.

 

[DirtyLittleSecret]

Where you at? Anywhere near Portland?

 

[Spook50]

Can't get the belts??? Try the local Napa warehouse or your Toyota dealer. At worst, the dealer can get it the next day.

Four days for my local dealer

Everywhere else (even the Napa warehouse) had to order it from their vendors too, which sounds like a pretty big crock o' s*** to me, given there's GOT to be other vehicles that use that same belt part #.

DLS, I'm up in Everett, WA right now.

 

[60wag]

I had a belt shred in the middle of Wyoming some years ago. Checker auto parts only had the skinny GM style belts. Napa was closed (Sunday) I ended up at a farm supply store. They had exactly what I needed. It took a little while to figure out the correct length but they had it.

 

[D'Animal]

You will be looking forward to that 10yo when you get home.

A tractor supply palce shold have it. i have one of my 60/2F apart. I can measure the belts you want.

It's a lot easier to go and buy a 1/2" belt 32" inches long than it is to buy a 19?? Toyota Landcruiser FJ 60 AC belt.

 

[CodeRed]

You will be looking forward to that 10yo when you get home.

A tractor supply palce shold have it. i have one of my 60/2F apart. I can measure the belts you want.

It's a lot easier to go and buy a 1/2" belt 32" inches long than it is to buy a 19?? Toyota Landcruiser FJ 60 AC belt.

I agree. These are tractor motors after all

I'd suggest getting a spare or 2 this time and keep them in the truck

 

[DirtyLittleSecret]

Do they still make the "emergency" belts? Adjustable length, and made for limited use (junk that will get you home).

 

[Spook50]

Do they still make the "emergency" belts? Adjustable length, and made for limited use (junk that will get you home).

I was actually just flipping through the phone book for some tractor supply places (figured the same thing you guys did, tractor motor) to call, and my sister's fiance calls me and says his dad tracked down a set of belts at a Carquest a little ways north of here. Apparently the kid I talked to when I called the closer Carquest didn't bother checking the other stores in the area when he said "I don't see them anywhere" Asstard

They're Gates belts, but I've got a set of good Dayco belts on order to keep as spares. Gonna vacuum pack 'em so the rubber won't deteriorate over time as well.