Long time ago in Albuquerque NM, October 2011 , I replaced the crankshaft pulley that came with Chloe because it was a horrible late (5* ATDC notch / dimple for TDC) pulley with terrible run-out that tightened and slackened the fan belt in a vibrationous unacceptability. I bought an original old pulley from some little shop up some little industrial park for $10.00, sanded it and painted it and put little valve adjustment stripes on it and I loved that nice little pulley. Did I say "little" pulley? I sure did. Turns out VW had a 6.85455" pulley and replaced it with a 7.32119" pulley for the later 1600s. So my Albuquerque pulley has been slightly undersized all these years, and I have had floppy belt tension even with the small 900mm belt.
Do I bore you?
I ordered a later pulley from a guy in Pennsylvania (whoever you are, I hate you) and it never arrived and he does not respond to messages (a pox on your lazy butt, a boil, a painful boil).
Yesterday, on a referral from the local Pensacola VW shop that also fixes postal trucks now, I drove off into the Florida countryside and discovered Werner in his shop. Werner was all about the good old days, and just had to show me his stash, it is pretty impressive. Type 1 engine parts, Type 3 fuel injection parts, cases of empty beer cans, and a 7.32119" "D" pulley for Chloe.
He peppered me with questions about Chloe,
"Do you have the preheater cable? Is your heat riser clear? Your engine seal must be intact . . ."
I played along.
"I am going to Death Valley this summer."
"Wooo, I don't know about that."
"I have always wanted to."
"Why summer?"
"Because it is hot."
"It may not like that too much."
Then he opened the rear hatch and looked at the preheater cable, the warm heat riser, the intact compartment seal, the grommets all accounted for,
"I think this bus might not care so much."
"Yeah, actually, it has already done Death Valley in the summer, It was 123* outside, it didn't care."
"Wooo, that's a hot one."
He gave me an original pulley that still had the factory white "0" painted under the TDC notch, very nice.
Sanded and smoothed the pulley. Etched the "VW" logo and the "D" stamp. Painted it:
I had to clear and file a damaged section of the oil groove spiral. It has two discrete and separate tracks that spool oil back into the crankcase. Amazingly, this simple little system works.
. . . and now, i must go tear the back off the engine AGAIN to replace the Albuquerque pulley, and we shall see about the belt tension henceforth.
Werner, if your wife gets you onto the internet successfully so you can read this, how does your pulley look now? Yeah, wooo.
Colin
BobD - 78 Bus . . . 112,730 miles
Chloe - 70 bus . . . 217,593 miles
Naranja - 77 Westy . . . 142,970 miles
Pluck - 1973 Squareback . . . . . . 55,600 miles
Alexus - 91 Lexus LS400 . . . 96,675 miles