Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2012 08:48:54 -0500
Reply-To: Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@GMAIL.COM>
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From: Alan Felder <dieseldoofus@GMAIL.COM>
Subject: Re: warning regarding GoWesty alternator bracket kit
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Mike - where do you find 9.5 belts in the US, rather than 10.0?
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Alan Felder
Austin TX
82 Diesel Westy
On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 10:15 PM, Mike Riley <mkriley@fuse.net> wrote:
> this is a joke as go westy is selling the WRONG SIZE BELT for vanagons and
> then sells a kit to make up for it!
> if you use the right 9.5 belt it will run with much less tension and you
> will not blow out your water pumps and alternator bearings and mounts.
> mike
>
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> 1. warning regarding GoWesty alternator bracket kit (15)
> 2. Map light (3)
> 3. Help locating pin at harness for idiot lights
> 4. Fwd: Re: [not_a_vw_club] Not a VW club Camp Out JA-DO
> 5. Name of the huge online supplier of nuts,bolts, pipe, etc etc. (4)
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> Date: Thu, 14 Jun 2012 00:15:15 -0400
> From: pickle vanagon
> Subject: warning regarding GoWesty alternator bracket kit
>
> GoWesty makes this nice kit to beef up the alternator bracket connection:
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4454&category_id=&category_parent_id=
>
> The carriage bolt that comes with the kit seems to be a very low grade. I
> stripped the threads on mine very easily. And multiple people at thesamba
> have had issues as well:
>
> http://www.gowesty.com/ec_view_details.php?id=4454&category_id=&category_parent_id=
>
> (GoWesty was very nice about replacing my bolt but said the hardness was
> not an issue even though it was perhaps only class 4.8 or so, since the
> bolt "doesn't need to be very tight". I don't like this perspective.)
>
> Anyways, I think the bracket seems like a very good idea overall (and you
> should get one *before* your studs break, not after) but I would recommend
> using a different bolt. Either you can scrap the carriage bolt and use
> whatever you already have straight through with a nut, or, the hardest M8
> 80mm carriage bolts I found were 8.8; fastenal has them. If anyone finds
> 10.9 let me know! I doubt they exist, unfortunately...
>
> When I replaced this not-hard-enough bolt, I replaced the nuts on my
> alternator bracket studs with 10.9 versions at the same time since I'm not
> sure what was already there was the correct hardness. Just wanted to
> report that if you have some funny wrenches then this can be done without
> disturbing the coolant pipe that appears to be in the way.
>
> -Wes
>
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