'87 4kq: alternator belt change; WAS: all lit up

[Ti Kan]

Andrew Buc writes:
> On Saturday, January 21, 2006, at 07:46  PM, Brendan wrote:
> > Get the goodyear gator belt. They stay on.
> 
> Sure enough, the alternator belt was hanging from the alternator 
> pulley. Well, I've got the old belt off, and the alternator cranked 
> over towards the centerline of the car for the shortest possible belt 
> path, and I can't get the new belt on for love nor money!
> 
> As it happens, my FLAPS had the Goodyear Gatorback belt--they gave me 
> an 11AV0840, which was what was listed for my car. After struggling 
> with it for a while, I dug out the old Conti belt that was on the car 
> before the one that failed--I'd kept it as a spare. The cardboard 
> sleeve said AVX 10x850, so I wondered if they'd given me the right 
> belt. I was assuming that 10 was probably the width in mm, and 840 or 
> ...

I recommend that you get a Conti belt instead of the Goodyear.
The Euro spec belts have a different V profile than the American
ones.  The result of using an American belt on the Audi pulley
would result in premature belt failure.  btdt...

-Ti