Will Owen '87 Gold '91 164S -- to be removed from alfa, see http://www.digest.net/bin/digest-subs.cgi or email "unsubscribe alfa" to [email protected]
Half a mile into a canyon run with a bunch of Fiat guys, the Milano
shredded and spit off its water pump/alternator belt, which I didn't
notice until I'd dropped all but a cup or so of coolant... anyway, a
couple of days later a friend and I replaced the belt, not a
particularly easy task especially when you're racing the sunset.
It was all pretty straightforward, despite the deeply inadequate
information to be gleaned from the factory manual, except when it came
to the steering pump belt. The only way we could find to get that belt
off was eventually to remove the pump from its mountings completely, as
there seemed no combination of loosening screws by which the front of
the pump could be adjusted; the back end can slide up and down on its
bracket, but the front is firmly located in place. No slots or nothin',
just holes where the screws go. It looked like it was going to go back
on badly cocked to one side, but when we tightened the screws down it
wound up more or less straight. Trouble is, the belt is now extremely
tight, with no deflection at all when you press down on it. Surely there
has to be some sort of adjustment possible, but we couldn't find it. Did
we miss something?
- [alfa] Milano belt question Will Owen
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