97 dodge intrepid/ air conditioning compressor issues

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catg - 09 May 2007 05:02 GMT

There is a horrible noise coming from the pulley that turns the belt that
drives the air compressor, the belt still turns, but the pulley isn't
turning like it should, I think it should turn continuously, but its real
jerky like. HELP

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Ickybob - 09 May 2007 21:13 GMT

> There is a horrible noise coming from the pulley that turns the belt that
> drives the air compressor, the belt still turns, but the pulley isn't
> turning like it should, I think it should turn continuously, but its real
> jerky like. HELP

I had a similar problem.. Very scary sounding whine, related to idle speeds.
As near as I can figure it's the AC clutch. Being cheap, and my car being
10 years old, I just cut off the AC Belt. No more noise... everything else
is ok, just no more AC.

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uccoskun@gmail.com - 09 May 2007 21:29 GMT

> > drives the air compressor, the belt still turns, but the pulley isn't
> > turning like it should, I think it should turn continuously, but its real
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> 10 years old, I just cut off the AC Belt. No more noise... everything else
> is ok, just no more AC.

the compressor is dead. you can buy a replacement from junk yards
(www.car-part.com) for 30 and put a 50 dollar worth gas to keep using
if you care about ac. If you donot care if you have ac, take the belt
out otherwise even you dont turn on the ac, when you put the ac system
on defrost mode, it will kick in the AC compressor. It means lots of
noise.

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catg - 10 May 2007 05:14 GMT

are you saying that in the winter when I go to defrost the window there is
going to be lots of noise?

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sqdancerLynn - 16 May 2007 06:01 GMT

Sounds like a bad bearing in the compressor clutch. It can be replaced
without replacing the compressor

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