who's idea was this mess?

[Calvin Krug]

Over the weekend, I decided to take a look at the destroyed timing 
belt on my other Audi, an '87 4000 S (non-quattro)  I saw that the 
drive belts have to come off to get the lower timing cover off and 
the new timing belt on, but I've never seen anything like the A/C 
belt setup on that 1.8 liter.  The compressor is bolted directly to a 
bracket, which mounts to the passenger side of the engine block.  I 
see no way of adjusting belt tension. Even stranger, that bracket 
forms an engine mount, attached to the lower radiator support, and 
it's located between the compressor pulley and the crank pulley. 
That's right, the belt can't be replaced without taking the mount 
loose.  Did Audi hire a Genreal Motors engineer (and I use the term 
engineer quite loosely here) to design that belt system?  Team 
doorhandle strikes again!   OK, so how do I get that sucker off 
without buying a Bentley manual?  The rest of the job should be 
pretty similar to my '87 Golf, which I have a Haynes book for.

Calvin K.
assembly is reverse of disassembly......yeah, sure it is.