Pully Alignment?

[Kevin L]

90 Jetta Turbo Diesel
Do all Jettas have power steering and alternator pulley/belt alignment trouble?

My 89 took several tries at shimming to get it right . I got 300K out of the pully alignment once it was correct (over 500K total) before other things killed it.

Now my new/used Jetta is suffering the same trouble. VW is no help in correctly selecting pulleys and there are hundreds of combinations, W/air,W/O air, W or W/O power steering, 50,60 or 90amp alt. etc.

Does anyone have a listing of pulleys used and their dimentions? this is not covered in the bently manual.
Kevin L

[andy2]

I had to shim my power steering pully out using washers to get it lined up due to having the wrong balancer, there are two different ones :roll: .Are you just having PS belt alignment problems?Does your car have A/C.My 91 jetta use to have a 1.6 td with P/S and A/C,Three v belts :evil: what a disaster.If yours has no A/C then the water pump pully would be somthing to check.I think that pully can shift as its 2 peice one,causing issues.

[Kevin L]

It has had the a/c unit removed , didn't work anyway and the mounting holes were all elongated so the pulleys were way out
p/s and water pump are dead on.