Well today was the first time she almost left me stranded. Went to visit my parents for the weekend from college. It's about 330 mile trip in each direction.

The way down went great but I started to notice a new sound coming from the engine bay, so this weekend I looked over everything and figure I should be good to go. I started my journey back and the sound was still there. Well when I got about 180 miles back towards college this afternoon, I got off the interstate to get gas. After filling her up I went inside and grabbed some snack.

When I went back out to start her up again she turned over, shook violently and died. Tried it a few more times hoping it was just fluke. Now being 180 miles from home and close to 140 from school, I started getting worried. I called AAA and had them send a tow truck my way because I knew they would take a while to come anyways. While the tow truck was on the way I finally got her to turn over and stay running for more then a few seconds, then the smoke started.

After quickly turning off the engine, I ran over to see what was smoking. After looking over everything I noticed that the belt to the AC compressor was throwing pieces of itself all over the air filter. As soon as I narrowed it down to the AC compressor, the AAA tow truck showed up. I asked him to tell me if the AC compressor pulley started to spin when I started the truck. Already basically knowing the answer, he said it wasn't budging and the belt was just spinning around the pulley.

I then knew that my AC compressor pulley was shot and it wasn't allowing the motor to turn over completely without burning the belt off. So I took out my handy dandy pocket knife out and cut the belt. I looked at the AAA guy and said, well I'm going to go now. I then proceeded to drive the remain 140 miles back to school with the windows down and music blasting.

I guess I'm in need of a AC compressor...