On Mon, 24 Sep 2001, Patrick Austin wrote: > I recently snapped an alternator belt on my (A/C equipped) car. It > happened more or less immediately after turning on my A/C. I nursed the > car to a meinike near my house to have them swap belts for me, as I don't > have time to do it myself right now. They just called and said that the > inner waterpump pulley is wobbling relative to the outer one, or something > like that. What gives? Could this cause the alternator belt to snap? It > doesn't even connect to the alternator. I'm going down in the morning to > check it out... >
Funny you should mention that... your water pump idler pulley is shot. So is mine, so is marshall's. I would suggest you order the idler pulley elimination kit from potter... it replaces that piece of shit pulley with a solid one. The only other change you need to make is to run the PS pump off of a different crank pulley (this is all included.) Your other option is to get a new idler pulley. I think the belt was ready to go, and the extra strain of the ac compressor caused it to go. Conceivably the wobble in the idler pulley could cause the belt to wear prematurely, though. _____________ List Sponsor: http://www.netsville.com To remove yourself from this list, send mail to [email protected] with 'unsubscribe a2_16v' in the body of your message See us on the web at http://www.a2-16v.com Visit the 16V Homepage at http://www.gti16v.org
