Hi,

Wow, you had that much play or space front to rear. You just threw them in like lettuce between bun slices.

Glad you made some movement on it as I was thinking everything was tight between the bushings.
Must be more that meet the eye here.
I was thinking of leaving one flange to the inside since the bushings spacers actually hold the alternator.
Some alternators use long tube through the housing on the bolt that gets held.
You would pinch the housing up against the bracket.
The washers would have to have a larger center hole than the tube or spacers to be just fillers.
Goes to show you how much I know of the 900 series.

The camera shows to my eyes some misalignment still.
From the way the Air Conditioner belt runs below in the back ground is not a very good reference but it looks it.

I hope you used a straight edge off the crankshaft face and measured the same distance of width over to the belt there.
The distance should be match coming off the straight edge over to the front alternator belt.
Notice I say “belt distance” as the web, on each side of a V belt groove, can vary their locations slightly.

Again, where is the second belt for the second groove on the alternator.
Doesn’t the water pump pulley have two grooves? I cannot see it all.
The water pump still looks empty of any belt. I’m clueless.
You should need longer belts to do any of that power transfer.
Only One belt would be under a bunch of strain!

As far as quality of belts our Malaysian friend has pointed out that Continental is losing in the traditional V-belt market by his standards.
Goodyear was and is the better belt by far but their management never had a real good distribution system in the automotive sector.
Too many profit only minded chain stores and other parts houses wanted to sell volume to be competitive and to heck with a longevity value.

Goodyear industrial belts always ran longer than any other belt due to the composition of its rubber alone.
Then they added the slanted notch that made them more quieter. That marketing splashed over to the automotive sector and kept people in New Jersey working.
That is until Goodyear, like General Electric, started getting smacked down by the stock market ideology to stock holders. GE was always a cut throat company to their contractors and now the knife is trimming differently.
Selling things off was a salvation and they do that if they could be top dog or actually own the market.
They still make airplane engines, locomotives and generators for power plants world wide.
They sold off most of or all the domestic appliance business.
Both companies are not as great as they used to be. It takes lots of work to be innovative as I know that all too well.

As far as BANDO belts go they were absolutely the worst belts alive 30 years ago. They have gone through their tribulations to get better or die!
I have not been in the industry of anything for the last 18 years but that doesn’t mean I still don’t follow technology.
I wouldn’t have made good wages in my working years by standing with my nose stuck in a corner somewhere. I found books and the internet and kept my common senses intact.

By looking into BANDO web site they have come a long ways! You have to capitalize it to get it spelt correctly.
They might be a replacement for good standard V-belts since in the automotive world as that design has lost a lot of advantage to being an engineering choice.
Front wheel drive engines and their tight spaces caused the engineers to paint the floors in different ways. But they still get stuck into corners without a good exit.

Some things I see are quite atrocious for the new young consumers.
I have a Maytag clothes washer and a GE refrigerator that’s 45 years old and working with minimal part replacements over the years.
Its No wonder that I own some 240 Volvos. They are my rolling part stores. One can feed the others for longer than I can imagine, for someone with the right mindset.
Trouble is the winds of change are under seizures of all types.


Back to your car….. On a 240 there are two belts going over the water pump shaft.
The torque needed to power the alternator should be the same for both cars of at least 80 amperes.

I’m suspicious of what you have going under there to obliterate a belt in such a manner?
Only one belt bugs me!😵‍💫

Phil