This is driving me nuts!
I know that it's difficult to locate and to be honest, I've never detected the mis-alignment myself; I've only explained my findings and assumptions to a shop and they replaced a pulley on another vehicle of mine which solved the problem. When they pulled it off, they laid it on a flat surface and you could see daylight under about 25% of the circumference.
Here's a thought. With belt off, give every item that has a pulley on it the 'push/pull test'.
Everything with a pulley on it has a bearing of some sort so your Water Pump, Power steering Pump, etc will have some forward/back motion when you grab the pulley and pull and push on it. Maybe the bearings are wearing out on one of the shafts and allowing extra play? Under regular use this causes the pulley's to walk back and forth a little bit which causes extra friction and belt wear.
Find the pulley with a lot of play and you have probably also found something that will fail in the near future. My guess is the water pump.
Everything with a pulley on it has a bearing of some sort so your Water Pump, Power steering Pump, etc will have some forward/back motion when you grab the pulley and pull and push on it. Maybe the bearings are wearing out on one of the shafts and allowing extra play? Under regular use this causes the pulley's to walk back and forth a little bit which causes extra friction and belt wear.
Find the pulley with a lot of play and you have probably also found something that will fail in the near future. My guess is the water pump.
Here's a thought. With belt off, give every item that has a pulley on it the 'push/pull test'.
Everything with a pulley on it has a bearing of some sort so your Water Pump, Power steering Pump, etc will have some forward/back motion when you grab the pulley and pull and push on it. Maybe the bearings are wearing out on one of the shafts and allowing extra play? Under regular use this causes the pulley's to walk back and forth a little bit which causes extra friction and belt wear.
Find the pulley with a lot of play and you have probably also found something that will fail in the near future. My guess is the water pump.
Everything with a pulley on it has a bearing of some sort so your Water Pump, Power steering Pump, etc will have some forward/back motion when you grab the pulley and pull and push on it. Maybe the bearings are wearing out on one of the shafts and allowing extra play? Under regular use this causes the pulley's to walk back and forth a little bit which causes extra friction and belt wear.
Find the pulley with a lot of play and you have probably also found something that will fail in the near future. My guess is the water pump.
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