[Vwdiesel] Quick Rabbit project update and question about pulleys

[Roger Brown]

David Cook wrote:
> Hello all-
> 
> Worked on the Rabbit for a little bit tonight.  I got
> the old A/C compressor bracket off, thanks to a cheap
> wrench being heated and bent.  I looked all over
> Manhattan yesterday, and no one sold "S" shaped
> wrenches.  A couple had some "C" shaped ones, but in
> only a couple standard sizes.  
> 
> Today I went to the Sears in Topeka and they didn't
> even have on, so I bought the 13mm wrench in their
> cheap brand, and had one of the bus mechanics heat and
> bend it.  Worked like a charm, thanks Roger for the
> idea.
> 
> Anyway, I mounted up one of the long-snout alternators
> with the new bracket, and it appears that the
> alternator pulley won't line up with the water pump
> pulley.  It is just a few mm too short.
> 
> Do I need a new water pump pulley to match?  How about
> crank pulley?  Anyone have any ideas on shimming the
> alternator pulley to make it stick out a little more? 
> Could that work?  
> 
> If I need other new pulleys, anyone have part numbers?
>  I see that in the trunk there are a couple other
> pulleys, but I don't know what they are for.

When I needed to replace the bent pulley on my water pump (1.9D engine), I could not find 
a matching pulley (it was the stamped steel kind).  So I scoured a few junkyards and came 
up with a cast iron pulley from an older gas engine car w/ A/C that stuck out just a bit 
too far.  I then chucked that pulley up in my lathe and shaved a few mm of material off 
the inside of the mounting flange until it lined up perfectly.  I already had the non-A/C 
alternator.

Maybe in your case you can shim the alternator bracket over farther, or the alt. in the 
bracket.

-- 
    Roger