Weird Noise

[Dozier]

 Hi everyone,

 Does anyone elses IP make this funky noise?

http://s1126.photobucket.com/albums/l603/dozierrrr/?action=view&current=IMG_0648.mp4

thanks!

[R.O.R-2.0]

page not found.. links dead....

both here, and on the vortex too.. same dead link.

[Dozier]

maybe now?

thanks

[steevz]

I've noticed mine making a similar noise. Haven't spent time to try and figure it out yet though.

[smutts]

Paint on the back of the cambelt squeaking on the intermediate shaft pulley..................Or not!

[Dozier]

Just loosened it a little. Went away.
thanks everyone!

[R.O.R-2.0]

Just loosened it a little. Went away.
thanks everyone!

means your timing belt was TOO TIGHT..

[Dozier]

Just loosened it a little. Went away.
thanks everyone!

means your timing belt was TOO TIGHT..

yea...I know. 

[ORCoaster]

Another front seal saved from premature death.

[JamesT]

That's the sound tensioners make when they're yelling at you.

[CRSMP5]

was just abt to reply to the pm... but yea over tight belt is 1st guess always..

[Dozier]

Well it did go away but now its back. I took the accessorie belts off to make sure and it's still there. Im not going to worrie with it. It runs fine.

thanks everyone!

[R.O.R-2.0]

Well it did go away but now its back. I took the accessorie belts off to make sure and it's still there. Im not going to worrie with it. It runs fine.

thanks everyone!

if you ran the belt too tight for too long, then the tensioner is probably wiped out, and if the tensioner seizes up, your timing belt breaks, and then your head needs a rebuild, or replace...

that sound like fun? then fix the noise..

[steevz]

I have a bit different of a noise.. it was more like a wub, wub, wub, wub.. like rubber on metal I guess. Now it's more of a metal on metal.. not loud, but there..

Took off my upper timing cover to check it out today.. brand new continental tbelt, worn on the sides down to the metal brading in two spots. I can see the sound happens as those spots go into the tensioner. Getting a new tensioner today. But any ideas on why only two spots of the belt would have been rubbing and wearing? Is the timing belt still safe to run?

[damac]

Your video still looks terrible, the belt is trying to ride off the pulley and its stopping because of the edge on the tensioner.

I got my jetta like that a year and a half ago and it had half a timing belt!  Crapped myself when I got it home, it drove fine on the way home

When I first searched for why it was happening, I thought it was a bad adjustment of the brackets that hold the ip.  But I couldn't adjust it away with a new timing belt/tensioner and the same thing was starting to happen.  Starts out rubbing, let it keep going and it slowly grinds the belt down.

What mine actually ended up being was the mainshaft bushings on the pump were so oval shaped that you could grab the pulley and rock it side to side with your hands.  I wasn't able to get a straight edge across the pulleys.

Ended up going with a spec'd bottom end of another pump and slapped my turbo bits on it and was amazed at the difference.  Then it took me a handfull of tries to get it perfect but then I was able to adjust where the ip sits and tracks on the belt.  Now its still riding down the middle almost 20,000 miles later.  No funky noises like that or belt shavings, etc.

If I was you I would investigate this and fix it now.  Maybe you will be lucky and your ip bracket is just out of adjustment.