Hello,

I've just acquired a Volvo 850 Turbo, my second Volvo.

Yesterday, the serpentine belt broke on the highway. I got it to the shop, and they got a new belt on, but told me that the alternator pulley is sticking out too far - it's off by about the width of one belt rib.

Everything else fits - the alternator was bolted properly to the engine, and looked fine, except for the pulley spacing.

I'm wondering - is it worth the effort to pull off the current alternator, and look for shims to remove or any other way to move the pulley in? Or am I stuck getting a new alternator?

Has anyone else heard of this before?

Thanks in advance for any info!

 

Someone must have replaced it and not paid attention to the pulleys and was supposed to swap the old one to the new Alt.

 

I agree, or like you said, someone added a spacer or shim where one is not supposed to be

 

So, any idea where I would go to get the correct pully, aside from buying a used alternator?

Tomorrow I'm going to take the alt. out to see what's going on and i would be nice to have a pully on hand just in case (or know where to mail order one for next weekend).

 

I would try to find a used one.