VW belt change in 5 seconds

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In a message dated 2/15/2011 3:00:21 P.M. Eastern Standard Time,  
quattro-request at audifans.com writes:

Back in the 60's, I drove my (MK 1 Sprite)356 SC from (Oakland to  Klamath 
Falls) NJ to Richmond, using a twice  (once)  around  piece of wet clothes 
line for a belt. Tighten as it  dried. There  were  
high rpm problems (over 2K it would come  off). I was too  young to realize 
that a Porsche dealer was not 
the   only  place to get a belt.(I was in the absolute boonies, about 10F 
and  it  took over 3 hours to go the last 50 mi, I don't know how many 
times  
the  'belt' came off')

Nice story Tom, it brings back some of  those memories about  owning 
British 
Sports Cars.

And to add  to another thread, in a MK 1 Sprite the MOST important tool  in 
the  tool box was a sleeping bag.


"I was in the absolute boonies"   Anyone on the East Coast with  a Porsche 
in the 60's was in the "absolute boonies". I think about 80% were  sold on 
the West Coast. I bought mine as a "left over". It had sat in a  dealers 
showroom for over a year, "with no takers". Without turning back  north, the 
nearest dealer to New Jersey (listed in the handbook) was in  Richmond.
 
The "MOST important tool" for a 356 was to know which VW parts  
interchanged. Porsche "quality" was not what I had been informed of. The worst  was 
that the "rubber" sealing actually was rubber, and oxidized at an  incredible 
rate.
 
AUDI CONTENT - The Porsche dealer with the "left over" is now an Audi  
dealer.