belts keep breaking

[coreo19]

i own a escort gt...i know its not a protege but its a bg chassis and same motor as a lx....but i keep breaking the altenator belt....broke one about 2 months ago and fixed it and today i was putting in my mx-3 shifter....never touched anything under the hood. went to drive it around a bit and started smelling the burnt rubber smell so i stopped at the end of my drive way...didnt see anything so i drove it for about 15 miles. then stoped again at the gas station poped the hood and you could see that rubber was starting to build up on the altenator from the belt. so i drove home. about 1/4 mile from my house the battery light came on and my temp. started going up. got home and there was no belt there. so my question is why do i keep breaking belts..the first time when the alt. belt came off it knocked the other belt beside it off to.

long story short-2nd belt i broke in the last few months..nothing seems to be out of alignment and nothing seems to be scraping the belt by the alt. any suggestions?

[13thghost]

your alternator is freezing up on you bye bye alternator. or water pump !!!

[coreo19]

both are free...neither locked up...replaced waterpump a 2 months ago along with the belt the first time.

[therieldeal]

did you tighten it too tight?

[coreo19]

i guess it could have happend...but i dont remeber on how tight i actually got it....o well i had to drive the camaro to school today and pickin up a belt at autozone on my way home....so ill tell yall if i find something

rieldeal-on the shortshifter u made...wut did u do with the rubber boot at the bottom of the shifter??

[therieldeal]

it stretches enough to take it off the bottom end of the shifter (at least mine did) so i just took it off, did my mod to the shifter, and then put it back on after

[coreo19]

yea i did that to mine to but the boot wouldnt cover up what it was suppose to on the bottom of the car...if that makes any sense...ill try to talk to u on aim since ur pm box is full...peace out

[therieldeal]

pm me on feoa that pm box doesnt fill up

[bcowie]

Maybe the bearing in the alt is messed up that happened to me.

[coreo19]

the alt. didnt move like it was suppose to but it did spin somewhat freely...so if the belt goes again im just goin to replace the alt. then...but she is runnign good now though...thanks for yalls help

[jay]

The other thing that can cause that problem is parts that aren't lined up. My rallycar ate belts and we couldn't track down the problem till we noticed that the alt pulley wasn't in line witrh the others. Judicious use of washers solved that issue.