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1. Crank Pulley has been making the screeching noise and today a grinding noise.
This part is critical to normal functioning of your motor - allows for cooling, provides spark, etc. It failed. May have also ground into oil pump cover.
2. Before it died, I smelled a burning rubber in the cabin.
Either the rubber in the crank pulley was cookin' or a belt was after pulley cr@pped out: friction + rubber = stinky smelly burning smell.
3. The heater died and and slowly the battery light dimmed on.
Part I. No crank pulley = no water pump = no coolant flow = no heater
Part II. No crank pulley = no alternator = no voltage = battery light.
4. The temperature gauge inched up 3/4 of the way. It's the dead of winter and this has never happened before.
As with #3, Part I., no water pump = no coolant flow = no heat dispersion = high motor temps.
4. The car died as I pulled into a side street.
No alternator = dead battery = no spark
5. Jumped started the car- and it started right up.
You borrowed someone else's electrons for spark.
6. 3 minutes later car died on the street again. 4 hours later. No start nor does any lights come on.
Can't get electrons from an alternator that doesn't spin (remember the dead crank pulley?). Battery is dead.
Im guessing the alternator - alt. belt (fanbelt?), crankpulley died causing the chain reaction. How do I test for the culprit? Thanks guys hopefully you will get me through another saab story.
There isn't really a test. You just look down between motor & firewall & see trashed pulley & belts. If pulley ground hole in oil pump cover & you lost oil, you could have big problems (jack/support car & look from below). if you stopped car before overheating & pump cover is intact, you lucked out.
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