Smoke coming out of the intakes.

[Perfectlap]

Originally Posted by kk2002s

Since it's a burnt rubber smell - possibly any one of the Belt drive pulleys began seizing up causing the serpentine belt to burn?

Good luck from a fellow NJer
Probably going to be another preventive maintenance item to add to the list

I should have taken a look in there. But man was that smell overwhelming.


I think I put S-belt #2 in there about 30k miles ago. Seems like a big hunk of tough rubber to cause that amount of smoke. I had the AC blasting full throttle to get the fans on after getting caught in traffic with high ambient temp. The coolant temp was inching closer to the 1 o'clock. About 10 minutes after breaking clear of traffic and pulling off the highway the fireworks show began. I guess as k9dbm mentions it might be the AC pump (so that's another device that has a clutch I didn't know about).

p.s.
Can you rig the fans to turn on without turning on the AC?

[JayG]

Originally Posted by Perfectlap

I should have taken a look in there. But man was that smell overwhelming.


I think I put S-belt #2 in there about 30k miles ago. Seems like a big hunk of tough rubber to cause that amount of smoke. I had the AC blasting full throttle to get the fans on after getting caught in traffic with high ambient temp. The coolant temp was inching closer to the 1 o'clock. About 10 minutes after breaking clear of traffic and pulling off the highway the fireworks show began. I guess as k9dbm mentions it might be the AC pump (so that's another device that has a clutch I didn't know about).

p.s.
Can you rig the fans to turn on without turning on the AC?

If you have a durametric connected, you can manually turn the fans on

[kk2002s]

Clutch on drive pulley for the AC compressor is pretty standard for most cars. I had one go bad on my 2003 jeep liberty. Fortunately, for that car, there is a clutch kit for $80 you can buy and with a loner pulley puller and an hours + time, got-er done

I have to search to see if there is a similar kit available for the 986

I finally used my AC yesterday and was glad 1st it still blows cold air and 2nd the pulley clutch didn't freeze up