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Model specific boards => Golf mk2 => Topic started by: Neo Badness on 06 July 2010, 21:15

Title: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Neo Badness on 06 July 2010, 21:15
Would an alternator off a mk2 TD be a direct replacement for the 16v one?

Been hunting for a replacement alternator for the KR with no joy but found one of these locally.


Any suggestions ?
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Wayne on 06 July 2010, 21:39
Should fit, from memory pulley might be different.
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Neo Badness on 06 July 2010, 22:28
Hmmn, need a new pulley too so kinda would defeat the object.

Anyone got a 16v alternator with intact pulley?
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Sam on 06 July 2010, 22:52
doesnt really matter i recon, if you can make it fit and it charges a battery on one car it should do the same job on another, just get a mk3 bracket and order a couple of different size belts
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Neo Badness on 06 July 2010, 23:28
doesnt really matter i recon, if you can make it fit and it charges a battery on one car it should do the same job on another, just get a mk3 bracket and order a couple of different size belts

Get what you're saying, but I'm looking for an easy life, plug and play as it were.

Alternator may last, it might not, but it's got cracks in it and cracks in the pulley :undecided:
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Wayne on 06 July 2010, 23:42
Just checked with someone else, he thinks the pulley will be different if yours has pas if not should be the same.
Title: Re: Mk2 16v Alternator vs one off mk2 td
Post by: Neo Badness on 06 July 2010, 23:58
Just checked with someone else, he thinks the pulley will be different if yours has pas if not should be the same.

Thanks, I forgot to say it does have power steering. So if donor has PAS would it fit or am I missing the point?

Just wan't something to be quick and easy for a change. No fecking about just bonnet up swap alternators, tighten belt and away.