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Originally posted by jku72
Sounds like a pain in the butt to me. Why can't you just run a serp belt in the same manner the V belts are run? I dont understand at all why you couldn't just take the pulley's, and get a measurement on a new belt, and use a regular rotation, e.g. stock water pump, and delete any and all idler pulleys, and just tighten up the belt the way the old belts were.
I have a crank pulley, a water pump, and an alternator. If I just swap the pulleys only, dump the idlers, and measure for a new belt, I see no reason why it wont work.
What am I missing here?
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Well,it sounds good.. I think a late cs-130 alternator with a serpentine pulley would bolt up. All three of those pulleys are on the same plane. You could tension it with the alternator bracket. But what if you had other accessories? Does rotation matter for the ac pump and power steering pump? Something would have to turn backwards. Also those pullies line up to different grooves. Could you even find a serpentine pulley for an A-6 compressor?
As far as pain in the rump factor... The only pain was figuring it all out. Very sanitary set-up. I like it.