Tonight when I was driving home in the R doing about 80 on the highway normal cruising, all of a sudden I hear a noise like almost like the entire bottom of the car was scraping. The kid next to me looked over like my car was gonna explode. Thankfully I was right at my exit and got off quick and pulled over and shut it off for a minute (wasen't sure what the hell happened.) This noise was LOUD AS *****, but only when the car was on, so I opend the hood with the car on and in the general direction of the A/C belts, I seem somethign out of place right away. The belt tensioner was crooked and definitly didn't look right. Called backup (dad & bro for help and flashlights) and it was that. This thing was almost about to fall right out. And the noise i guess was from it rattling around near everything which made it sound like a LOT worse thankfully, we got it out right there. The bolt that holds this is schered right off. I just had all the belts replaced less than a month ago so i think someone forgot or maybe overtightened this and it broke right off. I'm just glad it wasent something more serious, drove it home and everything was ok. I guess I just glad it wasen't something more serious. I'll be going to the shop that did the belts tomorrow to show them and show some fury. Here's a pic of what exactly came off.

 

your car's telling you that it wants to be lighter

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by AntiStock &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">your car's telling you that it wants to be lighter </TD></TR></TABLE>

lol bro, i dont have back seats, and i weigh 130

 

***** dude. That's a shotty job by the person who did the belts. Time to break out the drill and tap/die set. Good luck with that.

 

oh man, that sux! id be soo pissed!

 

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Naw, with no force on the bolt I bet he can get it out with channel-locks or vice grips.


Modified by Chris F at 9:29 PM 9/29/2005

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by neo_ &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Well atleast fall/winder is aproaching

Told you that you should of done your belts your self I never trust anyone to work on my car for this reason.

Neo's garage is always open if you need any help </TD></TR></TABLE>

im gonna need lots of help from neos garage

 

the same thing happened to my 01 gsr and i have seen it happen on many other cars .... you might want to change the idler bearing/pulley if the bearring doesent roll smooth ... the vibration from a bad bearing has been known to cause that bolt to break

 

thanks guys, i'll be pursuring this project this weekend

 

Maybe v-tec will knock that broken bolt out Mark, we will see tomorrow!

 

I guess I'm not the only one.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1385567

 

yah that **** happened to mine too. i got a 2000 gsr and it happened in '03.

 

That bolt will come out easy enough. It's happened twice to me until I went & bought my own bolt & not that flimsy crap that came on the kaa...

Last time, mine sheared off even with the block - had to use a dremel tool to cut a notch in it for a flat head screw driver to wiggle it out.

 

Exact same thing happened to me... tensioner bolt broke and the tensioner was rattling around my crank pulley. It destroyed my alternator belt... make sure you guys torque that bolt correctly

 

same thing happened to me last year on the way to atl

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by Jspectyper &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">same thing happened to me last year on the way to atl </TD></TR></TABLE>

mine did it on a trip to Columbia, MO earlier this summer.. horrendous noise, but not a huge problem.. I suspect mine was from overtightening of that bolt by someone as well.. the bolt came right out though.. insert new one, retension, good to go!

 

Wow, this same exact thing happened to me too! I wonder whats up? Seems like some thread lock is in hand.

 

The trick is that if it is this common, they should just use a stronger bolt.

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by hamB18C5 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">Wow, this same exact thing happened to me too! I wonder whats up? Seems like some thread lock is in hand. </TD></TR></TABLE>

That would just make said broken bolt nearly impossible to remove if it snaps off again. I'd reccomend against that. Try a stronger grade bolt, not OE, since that seems to be the problem.

 

or just don't overtighten it..

 

had it fixed by the shop today, free of charge

 

Good catch man.. that woulda sucked if it came off and you lost it on the highway somewhere ya know.

anyways ... holler at cha white friend ... track event coming soon.

 

My brotha, glad you got it fixed...

When you rolling south?
Metropolis just opened up first two weekends in October will be insane

 

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ofcourse man.....if they charge, bomb that shop

 

Glad to hear it was resolved.