Ok, so about a week and a half ago, I was driving down the interstate and my battery light came on. I didn't think much of it, until the next day when I had a chance to get it tested at Auto Zone, the guy there said he couldn't test the battery due to it not being charged enough. I went to walmart where I bought the thing and they said the battery was fine, that it was my alternator, they tried jumping it to get it out of the bay when a mechanic looked in the engine bay and noticed I had no alternator belt. They don't replace belts so i was stranded. Long story short, my father in-law and I got both belts replace later that night. Started with a jump and had no problems since... until now!

Today i was driving and all of sudden I heard a noise like something slapping the fender well. It was my alternator belt that was completely off and stuck in between some tubing. The Alternator belt is the inside belt, so there's not to many ( if any ) logical way that it came completely off and stuck next to the motor. Any thoughts? how long should I drive it before I retighten the belts this time, as I didn't last time.

Thanks

 

Make sure you get a good QUALITY belt like Gatorback....and retighten after about 100 miles or so, I think.

 

make sure the pullys are in good condition and are lined up

 

I went to Advanced Auto parts and they gave me a belt, not sure what brand as I don't have it near me since my wife went to work with the belt in my truck... but it was the most expensive one they had, dayco maybe? ring a bell? not completely sure.

 

Dayco is decent, but not great. Gatorback is great!

 

Advanced replaced the last one without charge, so i'll just use it for now, where can you get gatorback? AZ or O'Reilys?

 

yeah most of the time if the belt wont stay on the pulleys arent lined up i had the same problem with my power steering belt so i just got rid of all that **** but yeah get the pulleys checked

 

Make sure you tighten the hell out of it too.