About anything can be made to work... I would at least determine where the alternator pulley will line up, too.
Quote from: TylerDurden on January 02, 2013, 12:49:46 pmAbout anything can be made to work... I would at least determine where the alternator pulley will line up, too. Eventually, but I can't do that until I decide on a crank /water pump plane. The alternator can probably be made to follow, as it will be mounted to a plate covering the water pump.The gasser crank/gasser wp can likely be physically made to work, unless there's something inherently wrong with the ratio. The gasser crank pulley is smaller and the gasser wp pulley is larger. Not a lot, maybe 10% each.
The gasser wp pulley on the diesel crank pulley DOES interfere.
Quote from: rs899 on January 02, 2013, 12:08:21 pm The gasser wp pulley on the diesel crank pulley DOES interfere. What is that a picture of? Gasser crank pully and a gasser WP pully? Too large to work with the diesel crank pully means the diameter is too large?I sort of remember the crank pullys that go with the 40mm Wpump had a larger diameter and I ran into the same problem when swapping to 30mm on my very first Rabbit.. Sounds like you are looking for a diesel crank pully, just a tin one, same diameter as the gasser but doesn't stick out as far. If so keep the waterpump pully, all of our diesel WP pullys are a deep dish. Get a diesel crank
that spacer is not hubcentric.. the pulley will NEVER be centered.
Quotethat spacer is not hubcentric.. the pulley will NEVER be centered.This is a valid concern. Unfortunately 10mm puts it out of touch with the wp hub. In my feeble mind I don't see why I can't align it properly using a reference point ( like the crank pulley that's only 2mm or so away) and spinning/tightening until it spins true.I'm open to being talked out of this on that basis alone if it is truly a horrible idea.Once again, wrt the alternator, I am starting from a clean sheet of paper.I am going to mount a plate over the wp housing using the 4 bolts. Then locate a block on that to mount the Fox bracket on. The Fox pulley is quite long so will go with any arrangement of crank/wp pulley. That's all that I am going to drive- no steenking A/C or Power Steering.
you are really over-complicating things! the proper pulleys, and everything would bolt right up.. even the alternator on the stock fox bracket..
Quoteyou are really over-complicating things! the proper pulleys, and everything would bolt right up.. even the alternator on the stock fox bracket..I hear you on the wp pulley. I'm not sold on what I have done there so far.So, how's the Fox bracket going to mount up? I don't see any holes on the diesel block. I am going to HAVE to bastardize that bit unless I have a non - AC diesel bracket