Date:         Sat, 7 Mar 2009 21:01:13 -0800
Reply-To:     AD Felder <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM>
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From:         AD Felder <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM>
Subject:      Re: 82 westy drive belts
Comments: To: Jake Beaulieu <jake_beaulieu@yahoo.com>
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OOPS, sorry!  I forgot to mention mine is a diesel.  The busdepot is 10mm and is the single belt for the aircooled.  The diesel takes two shorter ones, in 9.5mm.

--- On Sat, 3/7/09, Jake Beaulieu <jake_beaulieu@yahoo.com> wrote:


From: Jake Beaulieu <jake_beaulieu@yahoo.com>
Subject: Re: 82 westy drive belts
To: "AD Felder" <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM>
Date: Saturday, March 7, 2009, 10:45 PM






http://www.busdepot.com/view.jsp?model=42&category=3&group=-1&prodgroup=-1
 
worked for me





From: AD Felder <dieseldoofus@YAHOO.COM>
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Sent: Saturday, March 7, 2009 11:29:38 PM
Subject: 82 westy drive belts

My owner's manual indicates that the v-belts are to be 9.5x600 LA and 9.5x643 LA.  I have not been able to find these sizes anywhere.  10mm, yes, sometimes, but not both sizes from the same place even.  I have found little to no information about belt sizes on the i-net.  Some mfr's websites "hint" that the 10mm are actually 9.5mm wide (Bando, I think).  Here is some handy info about belts and pulleys, that also indicates 9.5 being the actual standard width, along with 12mm http://www.gizmology.net/pulleysbelts.htm and that you should not change belt widths.
 
Questions:
 
There is only .5mm difference between the two sizes.  Is this significant and/or did VW just pull that size out of a hat, even though 10mm width belts were common at that time as well.  Air cooled (at least some) are called out as 10mm.
 
Why does no-one, including VW parts suppliers, list these belts?
 
Any sources for 9.5 belts?  I would like to use Conti, but there are NO retail sellers of Conti in this country that I could find.  Their "local" office for the US is in Thailand, I think.
 
I humbly await someone to educate me about this.

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