Alternator woes!!!!

[fahrvergnugen at cox.net (David Utley)]

The bearings in the Alt. alright?  If they are bad, perhaps that is the
source of the vibration that makes it loosen/move itself?

David
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Don Walter" <dswalterwi@gmail.com>
To: "Scirocco List" <scirocco-l@scirocco.org>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 6:25 PM
Subject: Alternator woes!!!!


Can an alternator be bad without the alternator light coming on?  and how
can the belt keep needing to be tighten every few hundred miles?  When we
put it on for the third time we checked and double checked that nothing else
is moving.  When first put on it is so tight that the alternator is touching
the A/C compressor.  Some how it is stretching then we tighten and it
stretches then we tighten and it stretches.  It is not slipping as we have
to keep moving farther up the bracket each time.  Any one have any ideas
what the heck is going on?  What could be shifting?

--
Don Walter - Waukesha, WI
1984 8V Audi 4000s (lastest addition)
1986 2.0L 16V TEC 2 Black Scirocco (see progress at
http://www.cardomain.com/memberpage/708939)
1986 2L 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (Ben's Car)
1988 1.8 16V Toronado Red Scirocco (sold on 3/29/04)
1984 1.8 8V Pewter Scirocco (sold years ago)
1971 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Karman Ghia (sold)
1969 Beetle (sold)
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