Hi guys new member here with an easy question / request .... no immediate answer found under search
So ... alternator belt been whining for a while, new it was on the way out but, what can i say, not enough hours in the day! So ... karma dictated that it snapped at the most inconvenient moment and allowed me to get only within sight of my home before the juice ran out and the engine fell to sleep
Had a quick look in the dark, clearly I need a new belt but also the plastic pulley on the belt tensioner arrangment has broken, half of it missing. Since the belt is actually in quite good nick I assume that the pulley broke and locked, then after an embarrassing quarter mile of high pitched screaming as the belt was dragged to its death over an immovable object, it final snapped, perhaps on a sharp edge of the now broken item. The snap is like a clean cut.
Anyway, i've just walked the remaining 200 metres home with the battery and put it on charge, but ... its pretty dark, I couldnt really make out how to remove the tensioner. I'm assuming removing this will allow me to refit a new belt and replacing it is the final step in fitting the belt.
Any one have any photos of this? anyone done it. Is it just as simple as taking off the tensioner, routing the belt and refitting a replacement?
Many thanks in advance.
J
Edit: its a 2001 golf gti V reg. (2001?) anyway 2 litre 8 valve unleaded.
Edit 2 lol: also ... almost every time i have started the thing the motor fails to disengauge, the engine obviously fires and spins it up big time and it squeal for a second. I did dome research a few months back and there seemed conflicting views. Buying a new motor obviously an option, also refurb the existing one or at the very least clean it all out. But I'm sure i also read that there was a possibility it was something else, some sort of retaining device inside the gearbox housing? and it might be that that was the issue. Any ideas? Cheers muchly!
