Nice! I'm sure it'll be epic

Im glad you have faith man haha All is remained to be seen

Today's mission is to find an alternator belt for he new setup. I have just chopped it figured out a rough length that it needs to be, going to buy a slightly smaller one to let the tension take up the slack, it needed replacing anyway.

Pics soon

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I think it needs to be 980 on mine.

I tried a 975, but it just wouldn't quite go on

Roughly measured up, I will be ordering a belt that is 20mm shorter, to allow for the tension.

State of the belt

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DarkHero - so have you removed the aircon on yours man??

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Working on it at the moment. The rad and pipe work have gone, just need to get the auxiliary belt then I can remove the pump

Awesome man, I'm glad we're doing the same thing ha if you find the correct belt in the end let me know as I'm ordering a 970mm belt soon

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I tried a 970 but just couldn't get it to fit

And that was just going round the bottom pulley and the alternator??

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Was the 970 just too tight??

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Wouldn't go on at all

That's what I wanted to hear haha I have ordered a 986mm belt, and I will see where I'm at after I try it and let you know! Also I have ordered 5 meters of 3mm and 4mm vacuum hose to relocate the vacuum control box and that ball thing on the front of the engine haha

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Can you not just get a non-A/C belt? Any 1.9tdi one will do it?

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I went to halfords and they didn't have one on their system, but I have considered that option, and if his doesn't work I will go down that route

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Can you not just get a non-A/C belt? Any 1.9tdi one will do it?

No, I tried that and it was far too short

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Whats different though?

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What do you mean what's different pip??

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Think he means what's different between the non ac models and a vrs with ac taken out, otherwise the belt should fit fine?

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Here is no difference, I just couldent find a suitable belt online

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Dark hero said that the non ac belt didn't fit and was far too short

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It was. Maybe the pulley's are different sizes, or the alternator is located in a slightly different place??

That's the message I got but it seams far too logical not to work. So the belt that I cut and tested came too 990, so I have ordered a 986. It might work, might not. I shall report back haha

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Just get one for a pd130 from a mk4 golf. One without A/C.....

Pip - I just love making my life difficult

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