[V8] Drove Through Snow, now alt=kaput? Belt is still on!

[Kneale Brownson]

The star adjuster setup works well if everything is in good shape.  I've
replaced them on my 200q20v, and belt tensioning is much more accurate than
trying to use a pry bar and tighten a nut/bolt at the same time.

At 08:56 AM 1/24/2005 -0500, Kent McLean wrote:
>v8-request at audifans.com wrote:
>> The alt in my '91 Avant died one slushy day in Iowa years ago.
>
>I was driving from NH to NC in my '89 200 and lost
>the alternator belt.  The belt and alternator are
>naked up front; I suspect snow got between the belt
>and pulley and let it fly.  On the 200, that whole
>tension-rod-and-star-adjuster setup s*cks.