My power steering and alternator belts jumped off the pullies the other day, and now wont line up. If someone could get me a picture of what its supposed to look like. I'm thinking i might have put the pullies on wrong when I did the Fan Bracket.

Thanks.

 

I had already taken the belts off in these photos, but hopefully you can get some idea of the pulley configuration in these.

 

Here's my truck ( its dirty, i know. its normally very clean )

Does anyone notice anything wrong with the pullies? they aren't lining up so if i were to put the belts on the pullies, they'd be twisted. that cant be normal?

basically this is whats happening, If i were to put the alternator belt back on, it would hit the AC belt? and if i put the power steering belt on, it would be all bendy and twisted... so whats going on?

 

Kinda looks like the pulleys associated with the fan are all shifted forward??? Did you recently pull your fan bracket off?

 

yes, i replaced it, but how does that make sense? that means everything on the front of my motor would shift, including the fan. and the fan isn't touching the shroud.

 

Hard to tell from the pics, but IF shifted, it would only be 1/2 an inch or so... not much. Does it look like those pulleys are slightly forward to your eye?

I'm thinking you gotta go back and check that bracket replacement job. Make sure the brackets are identical (but they probably are).

Did you have to swap your pulleys onto the new bracket?, if so make sure they are fully seated.

 

Wrenchinjoe, Thanks for your help. But I couldn't figure it out, So i thought about it. The pullies, belts and fan bracket have to come off to get the timing belt / water pump done. So i drove it as is to my mechanic ( only about a mile or two away ) and its now getting a timing belt and water pump job done on it. he said he'd fix it and tell me what happened when he gets it all back together.

 

Just wondering what the prob was as I am having the same issue

 

The false water pump bracket failed.