. I talked to the Bobcat service techs and they felt something was out of alignment and that I needed a technician to remedy echoing aharts comments. So I bite the bullet and had the machine floated to the local Bobcat dealer for their service technicians to take a look. Gave them the history, showed them the pics I had posted here, etc. They went through all the wheels and alignment of everything looked great. They put the new fan belt on (they called it a stretch belt as ahart mentioned) and ran it for a while. The belt ran a bit hot in their opinion so they took it off. They noticed a bit of rubber residue built up on a couple of the wheels so they cleaned it up with a brush and solution and reinstalled the belt. They said that this residue shouldn't have caused the problem but was the only thing they could really find. The bottom line to me was "we didn't find any smoking gun". That really wasn't what I wanted to hear. They replaced the compressor belt at the same time and I had them do a bunch of other unrelated service since the machine was in the shop.
