Raidman NO! Don't I'm replacing one and it's a b*tch! Pretty hard to get the bolt off, besides being a pain in the butt, the rubber seperates and eventually you have to change it out like I'm doing now. Ok, I'll stop my wine and complain.. take care :-)
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Michael 'Street'... one AZ '85 244DL 185K miles

Genaro,

Please let me know how your compressor upgrade project turns oout with regard to the pully. I pulled a DK compressor for use on my '84, but it never occured to me to yank the harmonic balancer from the donor car...

Anyhow, I did mount the DK in the '84. The pully slots seemed to align O.K., but the belt length is the challenge. A slightly longer one may be needed.
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1989 740Ti 1986 240DL 1984 244GL

Hi -

When all I had were B23 engined 240s, I hated that split pulley. Now I have B230F cars, and the old system was IMHO better. No special tool or rope trick was required, just spinal flexibility and care in not rounding those dipsquat soft metal nuts they use down there.

Seems to me it's a matter of relative pulley diameters, and thus belt length. Measure the diameters of all four, old drive, York, new drive and Diesel-Kiki. I don't know if the York is supposed to run faster or slower that the Diesel-Kiki, or then same, or if it makes much difference. It could work out that the B23 split pulley does just fine.

The center bolt on the B23 and B230 may or may not be the exact same diameter, pitch, and length. If I was a Volvo engineer, I would change nothing there, if possible. Maybe a BBRDer will send you at least the length of the bolt used on the B230. I would expect that diameter and pitch are the same.

Good Luck,

Bob

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