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alt issue, any help?

Posted: Sun Jan 31, 2010 8:59 pm
by dan_boom
after some advice and help as i hant really been into the corsas that long. ive got a 1.4 8v corsa sri and its basicly built for audio, so as u can imagine theres alot of strain on the alternator.
its got a 100a alt on it but runs on the thin V shaped alt belt and is, i think, slipping.it only slips when the voltage is dropping down to low 13v/12v's. is there an easy fix for this or a way of running a wider and perhaps sturdier belt.?

Re: alt issue, any help?

Posted: Tue Feb 02, 2010 11:11 am
by dandadan
is it tentioned properly? there should be about 13mm of play in the middle of the belt ( the longest section of belt between pulleys ).

as for fitting a bigger better belt the only way to do this i think would be to change the pulleys the belt goes round to puleys that would fit a belt you want but whether that would be possible i dont know.