Re: Re: [tech] water pump pulley replacement 16V??

[William J Erikson <williamjosiah@juno.com>]

Ahh one of them weird things. Never had a car with AC : )
Well, except my 5-cyl Quantums, and that's a whole different story.
Sorry to be misleading.
	-Josiah
	'84 GTI
	'87 QSW
	'86 Golf
	http://bork.hampshire.edu



On 10 Jun 99 09:50:36 +0100 Jonas Karlsson <jkarlsso@metabolex.com>
writes:
>
>William J Erikson wrote:
>>If the pulley is clicking and wiggling, then I'd say you need a new 
>water
>>pump. What's probably happening is that the bearings that are in the
>>water pump are wearing out.
>>	-Josiah
>
>
>Hmmm, could be, but I've had the paterpump pulley on my GF's 86 GLi go 
>bed and make an awful ruckuss. Rich describes that the waterpump has 2 
>pulleys and this was the same setup as on my GF's car. one belt goes 
>from crank-PS pupmp-WP, one from crank-WP-AC, and then the standard 
>AC-alternator. The WP has a double pulley setup and the two different 
>pulleys are held together by what seemed to be some kind of clutch 
>thingie. So if the PS pump froze up, then the WP, and alternator would 
>still be able to spin. Well, this "clutch" material had worn out 
>allowing the pulley not bolted to the WP (probably the larger one) to 
>wiggle. I fabricated my own tool like the one SP tools sells through 
>TT and Autotech. Big Ass washer, 3 holes drilled, and 2 steel rods 
>welded on. Painted a nice red color for longetevity. HTH
>
>Jonas 85 Scirocco
>

___________________________________________________________________
Get the Internet just the way you want it.
Free software, free e-mail, and free Internet access for a month!
Try Juno Web: http://dl.www.juno.com/dynoget/tagj.

--
To unsubscribe, send "unsubscribe scirocco-l" to majordomo@scirocco.org.
If you experience other problems, email: scirocco-l-probs@scirocco.org