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Date:         Mon, 13 Dec 2004 17:34:31 -0800
Reply-To:     BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         BenT Syncro <syncro@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      Anyone use A3 serpentine pulleys & brackets on a VW 1.8 inline-4?
Comments: To: Syncro <syncro@yahoogroups.com>
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Hi Folks,

Today I started installing A3 brackets, pulleys, alternator, & PS pump from an A3 Golf into my Vanagon GL with an inline-4 conversion from a 1993 VW Fox.

Anyway, I discovered tha the 2.0 inline-4's have an additional boss drilled and tapped for the 4th nut or bolt on the main cast aluminum bracket. The original cast iron bracket bolted in a different place. Three of the nuts/bolts are in the same place. The archives discuss installing this stuff in Tiico motors and 2.0 ABA block engines. Those engines have the extra threaded hole. The 1.8 I am using does not.

Has anybody here ever use the same for the 1.8? If you have, how did you deal with the missing attaching point? I am trying to decide if I should drill and tap a new hole. The 2.0 blocks have some reinforcement for the area to be drilled. I was also thinking that a small plate bolted to the original 1.8 mounts could be made to connect the hole for the A3 brackets. Or has anyone simply left them out?

Any advice will be appreciated. I hate to reinvent the wheel. Since this is a fairly popular swap, I thought someone may have undergone this conversion before.

TIA, BenT


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