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aircon compressor failure? S80 1999

posted by  someone claiming to be milesVU on  Thu Nov 1 18:02 CST 2007 [RELATED]

Hello,
Today as I was driving my 1990 s80 t6 stalled at a light, restarted just fine, but I got a bad burning rubber smell. I pulled in (I was right at my house) and popped open the hood and saw smoke coming out of the area of the serpentine belt. As the smoke cleared I saw a blob of what was either molten rubber or grease on the clutch for the compressor (I assumed thats what the thing at the bottom of the belts path was).

I'm assuming the clutch for the compressor failed, spat out some packed grease or something, and siezed? causing the smoke and the stall?

Has anyone else expierinced this? I restarted the car ~10 minutes later, let it idle for another 20 no more smoke and the compressor seemed to spin just fine. You think this was a one time incident? Can I drive on this or should I get it towed.

Thanks






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