Volks - I will be posting this on the diesel vanagon group list, so please pardon the overkill, but I am in need of some info pretty quick. Yesterday, while pulling my int shaft pulley to fix a leaky seal, I broke the pulley (ribbed belt pulley). My part has 068 115 021 on it, no suffix. ETKA says this part was replaced with suffix A in 1977, five years before my Vanagon was built. It has a thin flange around the edge, which is the part that broke (about 1 inch long section cracked off). ETKA says that for all years of diesel vanagon that pulley should be the suffix D, which has no flange. I also have the original single timing belt cover setup as in ETKA illustration 8-20 as is expected with my 82, that is, without the bottom belt cover, without the backing plate and newer injection pump mount, etc. I am in need of a new pulley and a used one will be here on tuesday, but it will not have the flanges on it, and probably is suffix D version. Will this work or will the belt slip off causing catastrophic failure? I am thinking it will not because of the tensioner flange but I better check here with the higher authorities first. Any and all comments welcome.
-- Alan Felder Austin TX 82 Diesel Westy |
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