Check your belts
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Check your belts
I had replacement belts laying around for a while. Finally got around to changing them. Visually checking the old belts on the car they looked OK. Here is the old belt bent the way it mounts on the car:
Here it is bent the other way:
Needless to say it was time time change them. Remove air intake box (including bottom to get to the airpump bolt, crossover tubes, strut bar and front plastic air box. Loosen the idler nut and adjustment bolt, alternator and adjustment bolt, air pump and adjustment bolt. Remove the two belts and put it all back together. The job went easy except for mounting the new alternator/airpump belt. Trick I used was to get the belt over everthing except the alternator. Then slowly push it over the lip of the alternator pully by using a ratchet to turn the alternator nut.
Cheap insurance. I used the Goodyear gator back belts and they fit fine. Took about an hour.
Here it is bent the other way:
Needless to say it was time time change them. Remove air intake box (including bottom to get to the airpump bolt, crossover tubes, strut bar and front plastic air box. Loosen the idler nut and adjustment bolt, alternator and adjustment bolt, air pump and adjustment bolt. Remove the two belts and put it all back together. The job went easy except for mounting the new alternator/airpump belt. Trick I used was to get the belt over everthing except the alternator. Then slowly push it over the lip of the alternator pully by using a ratchet to turn the alternator nut.
Cheap insurance. I used the Goodyear gator back belts and they fit fine. Took about an hour.
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Looks like my used Jetta that I bought with 136k miles. All the previous owners never took care of it! They were on original spark plugs, fuel filter, water pump, timing belt, etc.
Only thing they bothered to change was the transmission fluid which hid the issues with it until much later after the purchase.
grrr
Only thing they bothered to change was the transmission fluid which hid the issues with it until much later after the purchase.
grrr
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Of course, it certainly was better to change it than to take chances. Carry the used one as an emergency spare. That's what I am doing.
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Do you need to loosen up anything on the air pump. I loosened everything on the alternator and was able to get the old belt off, but cant get the new one one. Tried sliding the belt over the alternator and turning the nut to try to slip it on, and also tried slipping it on to the water pump pully but no luck. Just got my fd and this is my first belt change, just wondering if there are any tricks to it. Thanks
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Thanks guys for the help! Quick question that's unrelated. When I took off the intake hose that goes from the turbo into the intercooler, there is some oil that coats the inside of the hose, Not a lot just lightly coats the inside of the hose. Is this normal? thanks for the input, im use to my 82, the fd is a whole different beast. one last thing, she is all stock.
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