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

[Brendan]

On Sunday 22 January 2006 16:30, Ti Kan wrote:
> 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...

I can only say that I have had the car for 9 years, gone through 5-6 Conti 
belts in a year, and had 2 Gator belts on there since.