yeah mine grabbed at the lights a few times then seized, hell of alotta blaack smoke but it didnt drop the belt, just shredded it... sounds like an out of alignment pulley...Bennoz wrote:I've changed a power steering pump before as the bearing all but collapsed. It never dropped a belt thou!
I'd just drop all the belts off to check items they run past. Perhaps have a look at the air con compressor. You can run the car with the belts off for a few minutes without harm. Why not turn the car on, turn the air con on & see if the air con compressor will turn... if the internal clutch in it is gone, they can grab & release very quickly. Ie straining the belt briefly then disengaging.
by the by, this may not just be a bent pulley, but a bent rod holding the bastard on.
ive also seen the a/c compressor bent at the mounting nuts puttin the whole unit off alignment and thus dropping the belt, but you couldnt tell from the naked eye.
good luck, they're bastards... barely worth the 400 bux