While you have the belt off, check your harmonic balancer to make sure the sheave is still vulcanized to the rubber damper.

I recently had a squealing/squeaking noise on another car that I attributed to the water pump. It turned out that the sheave on the crankshaft balancer had become unstuck from the rubber that is sandwiched between the pulley hub and the sheave.

It would squeal on startup and then catch after a little while.


1950 Chevrolet 3100 (Ol' Roy)

1939 Packard Standard Eight Coupe (The Phantom) | 1956 Cadillac Coupe de Ville (The Bismarck) | 1964 Ford Galaxie 500 coupe |1966 Ford Mustang (Little Red) | 1969 Pontiac GTO (The Dishpit) I 1979 Ford F-100 | 1976 Ford F-150 (Big Red) | 1995 Ford F-150 (Newt)