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Topic: Weird whistling sound coming from the engine bay!
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RobertTS
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Yesterday I turned my car on and sudenly it started making a whitling sound,,similiar to the noise a blower makes at idle,,what could this be?? I was thinking its a pulley going bad or the pulley band is dirty.
Posts: 78 | From: California | Registered: Mar 2002
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JohnB
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Pull the accessory belt off, start the engine. If it goes away, you know it's something in the acc system.
Other than that, you might have an intake/vac leak.
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shakalaka916
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Yup my car does that also everytime its cold like a pulley is going badd? I have a 96 what thinking the bearings in the tensinior pulley is going out?
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Posts: 88 | From: SaCtOwN 916 | Registered: Sep 2005
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RobertTS
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Originally posted by JohnB:
Pull the accessory belt off, start the engine. If it goes away, you know it's something in the acc system.
Other than that, you might have an intake/vac leak.
If there was an intake/vacum leak,,shouldnt my check engine light be on??
[ October 10, 2005, 12:07 PM: Message edited by: RobertTS ]
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Hungry Hippo
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it could also be a bbk throttle body
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stangless
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that valve on the vac of the lower intake(pvc?) my friends car would make a hissing sound when that thing was not secure properly.
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