This also happened on my 1996 3.0 motor. Came off twice going through water. In my case the Napa belt was to long. The OEM belt works great. Also, the OEM tensioner hasfailed regularly. The NAPA tensioner I now have is stronger and has a lifetime warrenty. So I am running an OEM belt and NAPA idler pulley and tensioner.

 

Does anyone know where I can get the Gates Kit 38379K in Vancouver,Canada.The belt has come off my 1997 Grand Voyager too many times to count. Raining or not. [:@]My mechanic is unable to locate the part in Canada. Thanks.

 

Bought the whole kit from Amazon for $119. Installed in about an hour and looks like a winner. Very disappointed in Chrysler. Belt fell off at the worst times.

 

First let me apologize for posting on the wrong forum…But the Nitro forum seems inactive.

I have a 08 Nitro with less then 13,000 miles on it. This evening when I started it a cat under the hood threw the serpentine belt off. It was dark and I could not see much with the flashlight.

My question is do I dare try to reuse this belt once it was thrown off or is a new belt mandatory for dependable service?

I hate cats!

 

You may be still covered under your factory warranty. There is a TSB 07-001-08 for a rattle under the hood. Call the local dealer and say you heard a rattle sound and then you lost the fan belt. Never reuse a fan belt.

 

Thanks, master tech, I will put on a new belt and try to remember what I used to do with a Jeep years ago; toot the horn before starting to scare the cats away.

 

my wifes 2000 dodge grand caravan does the same thing keeps throwing the belt usually in rainy wheather. my brother in-law saw the same post on another site about the bracket

 

so why not fix it so it doesn't throw off the belt... and is the splash shield properly installed?

 

autozone was 124.99

 

I've got a 2000 3.3L Town & Country that is having this problem. I have the field repair kit. I have had the belt slip off now for the past year, after I had the water pump and idler replaced. Before these were replaced I had no problems at all, I even drove the van from Southern California up to the Oregon coast, and it was a pretty wet ride through nothern cali and oregon. Before I put the new grooved field repair kit I wanted to find a grooved water pump pulley. Autozone, Pepboys, and Napa have told me that they cannot find it. Has anyone else been able to a grooved water pump pulley?