Are the serps from the dealer or are they aftermarket? I had the serp
replaced on my wife's '95 Intrepid last summer and it kept throwing them.
One place told her it was because she 'raced too much." Yeah, right. Come
to find out that Gates and Goodyear, etc. don't know from shinola about
serps for Chryslers. Put a gen-u-wine Dodge serp on there and never had
another problem.
Richard in San Antonio
On Sun, 20 Aug 2000 22:46:01 -0700 "Ronald Wong" <ron-wong@home.com>
writes:
> Yeah, right. Two defective belts, one right after the other? Who
> made 'em,
> Firestone? Do they have ATX stamped on them? :-D I would let the
> dealership know or sign something stating that this is the third
> belt and
> that you believe it's the tensioner and don't want to get stuck with
> the
> repairs if this belt goes bad too. This happened in my 93 Caravan
> and the
> dealer swore up and down the tensioner was fine. Then I swore up
> and down,
> the tensioner got replaced....and I haven't had a problem since. Be
> wary...it wasn't the mechanic who argued with me, it was the service
> writer.
> If he knew what the he__ he was talking about, he'd be a mechanic
> instead of
> a service writer!
>
> Ron
> 00 SLT QC 4X2 5.9 46RE 3.55 LSD
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> [mailto:owner-dakota-truck@buffnet.net]On Behalf Of
> fawcett@uism.bu.edu
> Sent: Sunday, August 20, 2000 2:09 PM
> To: dakota-truck@buffnet.net
> Subject: DML: Alternators and Serpentine Belts
>
>
> All this talk about alternators has got me curious... I have a '98
> Kota
> (Gen
> III?) and on the sticker, which I saved, it says I have a stock 117
> amp
> alternator. First of all, does this seem right for a stock
> alternator?
> Secondly, Kyle keeps talking about upgrading to a 120 amp alternator
> for his
> extra lights and such and I was wondering if the 117 is good enough
> if I
> want
> to add some or does 3 amps make that much of a difference?? Please,
> all you
> electrical guru's please respond.
>
> On the serpentine thing, I'm on my second (1st died at around 22K
> and the
> second died at around 32K miles) and while they claim it's just
> defective
> belts, I'd kinda like an opinion here as I'm running out of
> warrantee space
> here. They claim to have checked the belt tensioner (by pulling on
> it) and
> claim it is in spec.... Is there a more accurate test for the
> tensioner or
> do I
> believe them that I'm just lucky and got two defective belts???
> TIA!
> Tom
>
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