roccs in rain?

[calimus@techography.net (calimus)]

I know exactly what your dealing with because I had the same problem today
(especially since I'm only about 45min north of ya)  Basicly what it is, is
water getting on the belts and pullies.  Since some rocket scientist didn't
provide a splash guard down by the water pump/pwr steering area, water gets
on these and rides the belts on up.  On the norm, it's my pwr steering that
is effected, but if I hit a big enough puddle, 4" of standing water will
easily do it, I get the alt light problem you were talking about.  it's just
water on the belts and while it isn't good, the cars are good about
spinning/burning it off pretty quick.  Once of these days I think I'm going
to see if I can make a spalsh guard for that area.  BTW, the lower the car
sits, the easier it is for this to happen.

William
----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Abatzis" <abatzis2@hotmail.com>
To: <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Monday, October 28, 2002 4:36 PM
Subject: roccs in rain?


> driving through torrential downpours/6-12" standing water today, had the
> common problem of my alt light coming on for a few seconds. this has
> happened on all 3 rocs i've owned (my old one used to die when this
> happened). today i watched the voltmeter for the first time.  noticed that
> it dropped below 10 when the light was on, then slowly rose to around 11.
> for the rest of the ride home (10-15 mins) it never made it back above 11.
> i assume the water is shorting my alternator somewhere, but does anyone
know
> exactly what's going on? when i put in some new grounds next weekend, i
> wouldn't mind fixing this as well...
>
> -Michael Abatzis
> Hotlanta! GA
> 1988 Scirocco 2L 16v RIP-->parting, prelim web site, but not taking orders
> yet: www.learnlink.emory.edu/~mabatzi/mikes_page1.html
> 1987 Scirocco 2L 16v...
>
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