Something about my Vette hates serpentine belts. I was heading to work a few days ago and I heard a nasty noise from under the hood. At first I thought my PS was crapping out. Open the hood and I could see pieces of the serpentine belt as well as a crap load of belt residue under the hood. Looks like my belt jumped a couple of ribs and about two ribs worth of the belt were disintegrated. Since I separated the supercharger belt from the PS/alternator belts I was able to drive home. While the belt was coming apart it slapped the hood pretty good, when it drops about 20 degrees I will try to buff out the marks.
I ordered the Gates laser alignment tool and checked the alignment today, seems to be off with the belt tensioner by about 1 rib. I need to run down to hardware store tomorrow to get some washers to shim it out tomorrow. Hopefully this will last me a while, if not I have a spare belt to keep in the Vette.
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