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General => General discussion => Topic started by: Agreeable Slick on 27 November 2006, 20:16

Title: Issues with....
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 27 November 2006, 20:16

my alternator on the audi.

I have a serious issue with floppy belt syndrome, just wondering if anyone can divuldge any useful hints about releasing the alternator and tightening the belt back up, as from the top it looks like it is mounted in it's own bracket and i am fooked if i can find the adjusting arm, that you would expect to find. I am confused.  :huh:

Title: Re: Issues with....
Post by: [han] on 30 November 2006, 13:08

haveu gota pic alex?is it audi 80? mine cameoff an audi 80, and its the same fastening method on both? where you can loosen the bolt and slide up to suit?  :lipsrsealed:

Title: Re: Issues with....
Post by: Agreeable Slick on 30 November 2006, 17:44

It's an 80, but not a petrol so all the boost pipes are in the way, and rad pipes seem to snake around the front of it, so i cannot see much. I looked at a couple of 80 petrols and they are all simple to get off, this one just looks like a pain in the arse. Nabbed a alternator off a vento tdi just in case. Why can they not all be as simple as that, took me all of 5 mins to get that one off.  :angry:

Title: Re: Issues with....
Post by: Daz... on 30 November 2006, 17:59

thats what you get for buying a diesel....

should have just bought a cheap mk3 tbh...

Title: Re: Issues with....
Post by: Len on 30 November 2006, 20:11

Audi diesels are a pig to work on! :laugh:

Title: Re: Issues with....
Post by: [han] on 30 November 2006, 20:38

so i wasntmuch help then...  :grin: but i was actually trying to help!