stethascope is only so long to try and get to the lower accesories ur gonna need a screw driver

 

Thanks for the info from all. Soon as I get a chance I am going to check all these ideas you have put out there. Thanks again for trying to silence these squirrels.:

 

I'm having the same exact problem. Sitting in the McDonald's drive through the other night, the squealing got so bad at times, it made the woman in front me leave without her food!

I took off the belt and wiggled and spun all the pulley's. The only one that seemed suspect is the fan. I read up on the fan clutch but no one mentioned the fan clutch squealing like that if it was bad. I just changed the belt 10,000 miles ago.

Anyone figure this out yet???

 

dude... you people are crazy.

Put comet on the belt and see if it stops the squealing. If it does go buy a new belt. more than likely its the belt.

 

well i had the squeal from under my hood 3 times now and it has never been the belt. tensioner pulley,idler pulley and now the ac unit. it could be the belt,possibly.

 

TXcharger 07 first thing I tried was a bar of soap to the belt, did not help, listened to everything possible with a screwdriver (poor mans stethoscope) could not tell where it was coming from exactly due to the noise but may be the a/c compressor or power steering pump seems to be louder on the drivers side. Thanks for you input but thumbs down for your solution.

 

i got EXACT same problem but i know people up at autozone so this is what i did and it still squealing
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Replaced Idler ( wasnt it )
Replaced Tension-er ( wasnt it )
Replaced Belt 16 TIMES ( isnt it )
Replaced Power Steering Pump
Only thing i can thing of was 2 days ago i was driving home from haloween horror nights had ac off and the squealing stopped outa no were and i herd this like tik tik tik tik VERY feint so i was watching my temp gauge to make sure clutch fan or water pump did int go out and it stayed at like 150 degrees i got to my house opened hood nothing closed it and SQUEAAAAAAL i was like WTF!!!! next morning same thing so i clicked on ac and SQUEALL turned off ac and it stoped and now it just keeps doing it... so i think its the compressor?

 

more than likely.

 

I took off my idler pully and tention pully and repacked both berings with grease and still get the little chirp. my water pump was just replaced and it not my p stering pump or ac pump and i just replaced my belt last week

 

how did you pack your tensioner pully bearings? it has a sealed bearing.