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Posted: Fri Apr 13, 2007 10:30 pm
by vwfye
okay.. that pulley has a totally different snout than mine! looks like my pulley is either the wrong one or backwards... thank you!
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:07 pm
by vwfye
whoooohooooo.... i have a correct pulley sitting on a dead engine. now if i can get it to release from the other alternator (rusted on) i can swap them and hopefully be driving my car again soon!
thanks for the help! i was pulling my hair out.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 1:52 pm
by raygreenwood
Picture #188 is hard to figure out....but I think it could hold a key. Behind teh sheet metal is a long....usually rusty...jawbone shaped bracket.
It bolts at the top to the cooling manifold...and on the bottom to the muffler/heat exchanger.
When it is properly installed...it should be boltod on the bottom end ....on the front side...towrd the front....of the car. So it is on the top center bolt of the right side header...on the header side of the flange. This way its not obsdtructive when you remove the muffler. The top end bolts in one position only.
Now...the flange on the alternator....goes in front of the bracket...with the T-nut behind in the slot.
If the long thin bracket is bolted to the wrong side of the exhaust manifold...it makes the bracket angled and pushes the alternator too far to the back. Check this. Ray
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 6:29 pm
by vwfye
nope... that is all bolted in correctly ray.... it has the WRONG pulley on it.
Posted: Sat Apr 14, 2007 9:05 pm
by raygreenwood
Yep, was figuring it was probably that simple. I am not close to any of mine to see them. The one on there in the pictures does look odd. Ray