My belt broke! Murphy\'s law does work!
I was coming back from KY to go back to AL from Thanksgiving.
I was doing some hard driving to kill the time, but then all of a sudden I see a ton of smoke coming out of my hood! I thought I was on fire!!
I quickly move to the side lane and open the hood. No fire..whew! But I had a busted serpentine belt! It musy have burnt up under some heavy loads from the pully. It melted my plastic tensioner pully. It was 5pm on a Saturday night 32 degrees on the side of 65 with nothing around. Statefarm couldn't find a wrecker service and I wasn't about to leave it on the side of 65 over the weekend. So I was thinking real hard how I was going to do this. A state trooper pulls over and tries to help...but he couldn't do anything either. I thought I would call Autozone and see if they had a belt. I was in doubt they would. Made the call and sure enought they had one!! The police gave me a ride in the back seat. It was kind of cool...people looked at me like I was a dangerous fellow! I gave them dirty looks just to add to the effect. I get the belt and buy a flash light with a $10.00 socket set and get to work on the side of the interstate. It was dark and freezing out. Come to find out the belt was the wrong size!! the cop had left and I was mad. But I looked at the belt and noticed i could by pass the A/C and whalla! it fit! I was able to make it home safe and sound.
So beware of the Autozone belt...they say it will fit, but it doesn't. I doubel checked the part number with them, but it showed the belt I had to be the right size.
When Murphy's law kicks in, it does at the worse times!!
I was coming back from KY to go back to AL from Thanksgiving.
I was doing some hard driving to kill the time, but then all of a sudden I see a ton of smoke coming out of my hood! I thought I was on fire!!
I quickly move to the side lane and open the hood. No fire..whew! But I had a busted serpentine belt! It musy have burnt up under some heavy loads from the pully. It melted my plastic tensioner pully. It was 5pm on a Saturday night 32 degrees on the side of 65 with nothing around. Statefarm couldn't find a wrecker service and I wasn't about to leave it on the side of 65 over the weekend. So I was thinking real hard how I was going to do this. A state trooper pulls over and tries to help...but he couldn't do anything either. I thought I would call Autozone and see if they had a belt. I was in doubt they would. Made the call and sure enought they had one!! The police gave me a ride in the back seat. It was kind of cool...people looked at me like I was a dangerous fellow! I gave them dirty looks just to add to the effect. I get the belt and buy a flash light with a $10.00 socket set and get to work on the side of the interstate. It was dark and freezing out. Come to find out the belt was the wrong size!! the cop had left and I was mad. But I looked at the belt and noticed i could by pass the A/C and whalla! it fit! I was able to make it home safe and sound.
So beware of the Autozone belt...they say it will fit, but it doesn't. I doubel checked the part number with them, but it showed the belt I had to be the right size.
When Murphy's law kicks in, it does at the worse times!!
