A squeaky fan belt can be mildly to terribly irritating if you are driving for some time listening to it squeal. When you start your car you may just hear the squeal for awhile then it may go away or it just might squeak the entire time the engine it running. A squeaky fan belt can be fixed a couple ways.
You can go buy some belt dressing and follow the directions on the package. Belt dressing works wonders for a squealing fan belt and it can keep the squeal away for a long time. You can purchase belt dressing at a auto parts store or just about any department store that sells car supplies.
But you may be someplace that you can’t always buy some belt dressing. Maybe you don’t have the extra cash to spend on belt dressing or maybe you just prefer to do things the old fashioned way.
You can take an ordinary bar of soap and rub the fan belt with the bar of soap. The soap makes for a finish on the fan belt the stops the squeal and lets your motor run quieter. A rub on the fan belt can go a long way to stopping the squeal or a fan belt and it doesn’t cost much money just the bar of soap. You don’t even use the whole bar of soap so you can keep it for the next time the fan belt squeals or put it back in the bathroom and use it for cleaning dirty hands.
A bar of soap can be acquired easily. Many bathrooms have one and if it is partially used it will still work just fine. The bar of soap does not have to be a new bar of soap it can be a previously enjoyed bar of soap that you rub on the fan belt. Any new or used bar of soap will work.
Always be safe anytime you are around an engine and don’t work on an engine with the motor running. Make sure the motor is off when you rub the fan belt with the bar of soap. Rub the fan belt with the bar of soap on a non running engine. Just rub the bar of soap on as much of the fan belt as you can reach. The soap will spread around itself and cover the whole fan belt.
