Loss of power steering in wet

[Deefadog]

phil, I went down gsf today and saked and the guy was really helpfull and said that I have the right belts, weird.  Let me know if yours is ok when you fit it, the only way I will tell if it's the right belt is when I take mine off, i may get a chance on sunday.

Cheers

[philadams16V]

The belt ive got is the wrong one m8.  I have the one that connects the altenator to the aircon pump on mine.  Not sure what that will be on yours as u prob aint got aircon.  The belt is the right width and has right teeth but it just aint long enough to go over the 3 cogs for the PAS. Tightened my PAS belt though as it was pretty loose and steering seems ok now, so fingers crossed.  Good luck

[Deefadog]

Nope aint got AC

So hopefully I have the right belts then have not had a chance this weekend to try it, will get onto it ASAP

Thanks again for the update

[MarkII16v]

Found out why my steering was squeeling in the wet...... Cars in the garage having a new head gasket set fitted  :'( I asked the bloke to take a look at tightening the belt for me, turns out that the belt is split slightly and the tensioner was broken! So when I get my car back hopefully it should drive a lot better  Albeit ?550 lighter in the pocket

[Deefadog]

HELP PLEASE SOMEONE

Finally got round to doing the belts, If i am rigt in syaing the power steering belt has to come off first to llowthe alternator belt to go on yes?

So I lossend the front tensioner for the power seering and the thing would not budge, I did notce on the sump side that the pump has a slot on it, does this have to be lossend also?? I i did not want to undo it incase I knackeed something up

btw Haynes is crap on this, there is not a step by step guide for this!

[VeeDubGTI16v]

you have probably missed a bolt. theres one (if looking at tthe car) at the back of the pump which is a bit tricky to find, you need an extension bar to reach it with a socket.

i had problems getting a power steering belt to fit. even woking colbornes couldnt work it out my power steering has two pulleys instead of the normal 3 and i got no idea why, vag matey said that maybe the power steering was put on afterwards? how many pulleys have you boys got

[Deefadog]

Thanks mate

I think i have 3 pulleys!

Well i have loosened the tensioner at the very bottom, and the bolt at the top which looks like where the wuhole thing swivels from, so ther is another bolt on the back, between the sump and the pump? I did notice this had a grove so it looks like it can move between this grove! is this correct, anything else?

btw looking at the power steering belt, it is around a third of the size of the alternator belt, so will have to take this back to gsf for them to get me the right one!

[VeeDubGTI16v]

its usually the width of the belt which makes it squeak cos it runs sideways in the groove

[Deefadog]

Right this is driving me nutz, I have undone all the bolts that i can see and it still will not budge! if i have undone them all should it move freely?

I have undone: (if looking from the weel side, which i have removed)

1 x bolt on tension on bottom

2 x bolts on the lefto9f the tensioner

2 x bolts on the pump it self

and the swivel bar above the pump

The pump is loose but will not swivel??

I can't see that other bolt o the sum side you mentioned, is it near the pump it self or the arm?