shreaves
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- Tampa, FL
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- 92 Explorer
Ok all, I'm new on these forums, so please take it easy on the newbie here.
Background: Had problems starting the truck yesterday. Local Autozone tested battery and starter and both tested good. They gave me a new starter anyhow as I had a lifetime warranty one and it was 5 years old. Got it installed and truck started right up.
That's when I moved to the A/C issue. I tried engaging the A/C (even though it was warm) so I could go get the gauges to see if it was just low on juice. After about 10 seconds I saw sparks from around the bearing and coil area. Lokked real quick and the bearing assembly looked red hot. Turned her ignition off real fast... Guess it was pretty hot as it melted the serpentine belt off.
In the past couple weeks, the clutch did seem to engage and disengage - just repetitive on/off every 10 seconds or so. I figured I'd just leave the A/C off till I could check the pressure. Well, then the little smoke / fire incident.....
Status now: Pulley is quite loose - bearings obviously shot.
Question: from what I have stated, do you think I might get away with just replacing the bearing / pulley assembly, or need to replace the field coil too?
It looks like Autozone sells the bearing separately but other auto places only sell the set.
Thoughts almighty gurus?
Background: Had problems starting the truck yesterday. Local Autozone tested battery and starter and both tested good. They gave me a new starter anyhow as I had a lifetime warranty one and it was 5 years old. Got it installed and truck started right up.
That's when I moved to the A/C issue. I tried engaging the A/C (even though it was warm) so I could go get the gauges to see if it was just low on juice. After about 10 seconds I saw sparks from around the bearing and coil area. Lokked real quick and the bearing assembly looked red hot. Turned her ignition off real fast... Guess it was pretty hot as it melted the serpentine belt off.
In the past couple weeks, the clutch did seem to engage and disengage - just repetitive on/off every 10 seconds or so. I figured I'd just leave the A/C off till I could check the pressure. Well, then the little smoke / fire incident.....
Status now: Pulley is quite loose - bearings obviously shot.
Question: from what I have stated, do you think I might get away with just replacing the bearing / pulley assembly, or need to replace the field coil too?
It looks like Autozone sells the bearing separately but other auto places only sell the set.
Thoughts almighty gurus?