Eww That Smell!!
#1
Eww That Smell!!
Hey guys,
well i gotta ? for you all. I just got a 98 max and the previous owner has just repaced the belts for me and said they were makin a squeekin noise so he got the shop to tight or loosen it.( 1 or the other) Well i today i jsut got down washing it and i pulled it onto the street 2 shoot some hoops with my friends and b4 i got out i was hit with this awful smell. 1st i thought it was teh clutch so i took it down the street and tested it out.... no slipage. Clutch was fine. So i kept thinkin and i remembered that he had new belts put on. Do new belts smell bad? Maybe the shop tighted them 2 tight??? What do you guess think. Altenator? Belts? HELP!! ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!
well i gotta ? for you all. I just got a 98 max and the previous owner has just repaced the belts for me and said they were makin a squeekin noise so he got the shop to tight or loosen it.( 1 or the other) Well i today i jsut got down washing it and i pulled it onto the street 2 shoot some hoops with my friends and b4 i got out i was hit with this awful smell. 1st i thought it was teh clutch so i took it down the street and tested it out.... no slipage. Clutch was fine. So i kept thinkin and i remembered that he had new belts put on. Do new belts smell bad? Maybe the shop tighted them 2 tight??? What do you guess think. Altenator? Belts? HELP!! ITS DRIVING ME CRAZY!!
#9
I have elimated the belts. The smell seems to be comming from the iginition coils.. Could this be the problem? Then smell is not the belts. The smell was so strong it seemed like it was the belt but its been sitting outside for 30 min and the smell has left the belts and the source seems to be the ingition coils. Is that a possibility??
#10
You can run your car without belts safely for short periods of time. The only thing your belts do is run your power steering (which you arent going to be using while checking), run your a/c (same w/ power steering, and run your alternator (which you do need, but your car can run off the battery for a short period of time).
#12
Originally Posted by PoePoe2797
You can run your car without belts safely for short periods of time. The only thing your belts do is run your power steering (which you arent going to be using while checking), run your a/c (same w/ power steering, and run your alternator (which you do need, but your car can run off the battery for a short period of time).
#19
my friend had a fish smell comin from his car for a long time and we had no idea what it was or where it was comin from....one day he drove past me and i smelled it from his exhaust. he got a new exhaust put on and it was coming from that. rev the car and smell your exhaust.
#25
Originally Posted by sean05
The smell is comming from the left side of the engine. what do u think it is?? it almost smells like an electrical burning.
#29
The smell is a strong almost fishy but smells like it could be electrical?? The smell is comming from the left half of the engine there is no smell to the right part by my intake. It smells like it comming from under the intake manifold. Maybe it is the alternator. I think it is an ingition coil but the alternator could be it too. There is no smoke. No smoke from the exhaust. It just has a strong smell comming from under the hood.
i hope my baby is alright.
i hope my baby is alright.
#31
ok since its not from the exhaust, and there is no smoke, you can rule out a dead catalytic converter, coolant leak (wouldnt smell fishy) or oil leak (would smell different and cause smoke). I would say clutch is quite a possible option
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