Any solution for belt adjustment?

Funny you mention this. Maybe it's different on the 40v V8s, do you have a pic of the tensioner on that? On the ABZ the tensioner pulley is on a sprung bracket that keeps tension on the belt. An ~8" shock absorber/damper looking thing bolts to the timing cover and to the tensioner pulley bracket. I ran the motor without the damper and I saw the tensioner moving and the belt tracked off. I then had my buddy hold a 13mm wrench on the tensioner to keep it tight and it seemed ok. The part from the dealer is over 200 bucks so I made a solid rigid bracket to hold things tight. Only downside to my design is that over time as the belt stretches I won't have the damper to auto tension the belt. I'd have to check it, and keep retightening it as it loosened up.

He's talking about the older 5cyl engines. It is a crappy solution only because of the metal they used. I used to use force on the body of the component with a pry bar, then just tightened the stuff down.

cuatrokoop said:

He's talking about the older 5cyl engines. It is a crappy solution only because of the metal they used. I used to use force on the body of the component with a pry bar, then just tightened the stuff down.

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Thanks Golden but yeah I was talking about my 5 cylinder. Sorry I should have specified. It squeals 85% of the time when moving from a stop for 2-3 seconds then I won't hear it again unless I downshift or come to a stop and move again. I'll get under there and pry it again and tighten her up. Seems to loosen up after a while. I just don't like to keep fixing something if there is a better way to do it.

If your a/c isn't working ditch the a/c belt for one. Try a dayco top cog belt for the alt.

The A/c works but it has a leak so I need to re-charge it frequently. I'll try to get some dayco cog belts. Thank you.

Or just buy a replacement bolt....

http://www.partsgeek.com/gbproducts/WC/ ... QgodhyYAlg

Not going to help much when the bracket that has the other cogged end is also rounded off :/

Ah sorry. Thought you meant the bolt rounded out. I have a spare bracket somewhere where are you located?

New hampshire

Ah. I can look around for it and if you wanted to pay for shipping I could send it.

I'll keep that in mind, I'm going to see if I can do anything more on my end before I take you up on that. Thank you.

Other than that I'd say pry and tighten.... You'll have to tighten it every once in a while.

I didn't have good luck with TopCogs. I only had good luck with the Conti belts...

Found these a while ago while looking for alternators. I'd imagine it's the same for all the 5 cylinder tensioner brackets and whatnot. There's a bunch of listings for them if you search around.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Audi-100-200-VW ... 06&vxp=mtr" onclick="window.open(this.href);return false;

Woops, nevermind. Just realized you meant the bracket was toast too...