also check the belt for cracks and wear ....you may have to take it off to do this "RANGEISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED"
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pretlove wrote:

also check the belt for cracks and wear ....you may have to take it off to do this

well guys...

i boiled the kettle, made myself a nice cup of tea ....

open the 'bonnet' of my RR ...

started up that V8 (got to love it) ........ squeeallllllll squeaallll

poured some water on to the fan belt near the passanger side and all i could here was the rumble of my v8 ... so it looks like the obivously culprit is that my belt is F****D

I will want to work on this RR as much as possible myself and id really apprieciate if someone could point me in the direction of where I can get guidance on changing this myself. I suspect this is a comfortable job to do for a novice, I seen my dad do it on a jaguar v8 before but that was almost a decade ago...

You would be as well changing both belts whilst you're at it. Release the tension on pulley number 5 and slip the belt off, then remove the tension on pulley number 7 and slip the second belt off. Refitting is reversal.

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Holly Cow !!! Does this beast have two belts, I assumed it was one from a different diagram I seen ..

hmmm right i see, yeah I would certainly change both if was doing the work to get to one anyway however how would i even access the pulley's theres no way unless I took the fan out or does everyone generally jack the RR up and work from the bottom ?

Cheers

i thought it was your belt ...any way you can get to it either way from the bottom or the top if your not very tall like me get a crate  "RANGEISM WILL NOT BE TOLERATED"
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if you have a squeak, get it sorted. The chances are it is the tensioner pulley or idler puller. Mine was - the bearing was on the way out.

Literally the pulley seized and was worn down to nothing by the fan belt, the belt ended up running on just a steel arm, the pulley had gone - a few more miles and the belt would have frayed, snapped and stranded me.

The squeak is the bearing starting to run dry, it is only a matter of time. A £250 main dealer bill can soon escalate with recovery charges plus the inconvenience.

Vogue wrote:

if you have a squeak, get it sorted. The chances are it is the tensioner pulley or idler puller. Mine was - the bearing was on the way out.

Literally the pulley seized and was worn down to nothing by the fan belt, the belt ended up running on just a steel arm, the pulley had gone - a few more miles and the belt would have frayed, snapped and stranded me.

The squeak is the bearing starting to run dry, it is only a matter of time. A £250 main dealer bill can soon escalate with recovery charges plus the inconvenience.

It's not a big job to change the belts, change them first and see if the squeal goes away

47p2 wrote:

It's not a big job to change the belts, change them first and see if the squeal goes away

Take it along to John's (47p2) garage and he'll do it FOC , really really kind guy ….

As above, release the tension and remove the belt. The tensioner will have a bolt at one side which is for releasing the tension, I've not worked on a V8 engine so cannot tell you what size the bolt will be. If you have the space use a 12 point socket on the bolt, if not it will need to be a ring spanner.

47p2 wrote:

As above, release the tension and remove the belt. The tensioner will have a bolt at one side which is for releasing the tension, I've not worked on a V8 engine so cannot tell you what size the bolt will be. If you have the space use a 12 point socket on the bolt, if not it will need to be a ring spanner.

Yeah although its his own private one , but it is a Belter , if only i can find the picture of it

RR8701 wrote:

John thanks for the steps. I'll do some research and might even do a write up for it. Do you really have a garage I wasn't sure if mick was pulling my leg lol

A write up would be good.

Mick's always pulling something, and not usually someones leg