Belts are Squealing...

[davidwinchell2 at sprynet.com (David L. Winchell, II)]

Gates.  I have known gates in the past to be reliable.  Any ideas?

-----Original Message-----
From: David Utley [mailto:fahrvegnugen@cox.net] 
Sent: Monday, August 08, 2005 9:29 AM
To: David L. Winchell, II; 'David L. Winchell, II'; 'Scirocco List'
Subject: Re: RE: Belts are Squealing...



> 
> From: "David L. Winchell, II" <davidwinchell2@sprynet.com>
> Date: 2005/08/06 Sat PM 12:21:27 EDT
> To: "'David L. Winchell, II'" <davidwinchell2@sprynet.com>, 
> 	"'Scirocco List'" <Scirocco-l@scirocco.org>

> 
> Now a question for all the Engineer types. Before I installed the new 
> belts I compared them to the ones that were in (also new, but 
> purchased from different stores.) As I suspected the alternator to A/C

> belt was the same width on the outside of the belt, but the inner V 
> was noticeably different.  The packaging for each reads exactly the 
> same. Is this normal?  I guess it is possible the wrong belt was 
> placed in the package of the one I installed last week. Any other 
> theories?
> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Dave

I would hate to classify myself as an 'engineering type', but since I
tend to argue with the engineers so much...  ;-)

What was the other brand?

David

'83 GTI, Daily Driver...
'87 16V, parts car
'82 pickup, 2.0 16V, collecting dust...