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posted by  mjamgb on  Sat Jun 25 16:00 CST 2005
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Now, now... Of course the WP pulley will still line up because you didn't move it. We are trying to get a pulley groove at the alternator to come into line, right? Monkeying with that all we want will not change the relationship of the WP pulley to the Crank pulley one iota.

Re Corvair. Yup, recall them dandy. Their pulleys were properly aligned but they had the "turning" at 90-degrees. I also thought the ding-dong belt was pretty thin...

Those pulley alignments are crucial. I kept throwing belts on my air-cooled VWs after an alternator conversion (yes, I cut my automotive teeth on VW's before gettin' religion). Long story less long, the conversion assumed you were using a beetle breastplatebut I put the thing in a bus and that moved the pulley about 6mm forward. I wouldn't even get it cranked over to set the valve lash without rollin' the belt off. Swap to a beetle breast plate fixed that but I never forgot the lesson(s).

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Mike!






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