wulf mtrs
Sunday 22nd February 2009, 17:30
HELLO ALL
A recent straight forward replacment of the alternator on a 960 24v seemed to be another job well done.The owner is a good friend of the gaffa and we have been looking after the car for most of its life. In typical volvo style its solid with only a annual services and brake pads being required.
The original alternator had coverd over 100.000 miles,on a N reg it simply did not show any juice coming out of it. We notified the customer and agreed to fit an aftermarket unit this was a vovlo re manufactured item.A week after fitting it the bearing was noisey so much for re manufactured so we replaced it again with a bosch unit and all was well.
Two weeks went buy when we got a call to say its on the back of a AA truck
its cut out!.Wen we checked it out we found the alternator drive belt which was a new gates micro x belt had climbed off the back of the crank pulley and was tangled around the crank gear causing the timing to jump detromently.It bent all 24 valves and smashed all 24 valve guides
We are currently re building the cylinder head, gates them selves have checked the belt out and thay say thats not the cause im happy myself thats not the cause.That only leaves one of two causes left.The alternator its self or the mounting brackett for the power steering and alternator .The alternator has staggerd back possibly from a brackett alignment issue. Has anyone had or heard of this problem please help! as i dont want to rebuild it again.We have checked alternator for fitment and have checked, compared it to another new alternator looks and fits the same is there brackett issues on 960 2.5.24V N reg?
A recent straight forward replacment of the alternator on a 960 24v seemed to be another job well done.The owner is a good friend of the gaffa and we have been looking after the car for most of its life. In typical volvo style its solid with only a annual services and brake pads being required.
The original alternator had coverd over 100.000 miles,on a N reg it simply did not show any juice coming out of it. We notified the customer and agreed to fit an aftermarket unit this was a vovlo re manufactured item.A week after fitting it the bearing was noisey so much for re manufactured so we replaced it again with a bosch unit and all was well.
Two weeks went buy when we got a call to say its on the back of a AA truck
its cut out!.Wen we checked it out we found the alternator drive belt which was a new gates micro x belt had climbed off the back of the crank pulley and was tangled around the crank gear causing the timing to jump detromently.It bent all 24 valves and smashed all 24 valve guides
We are currently re building the cylinder head, gates them selves have checked the belt out and thay say thats not the cause im happy myself thats not the cause.That only leaves one of two causes left.The alternator its self or the mounting brackett for the power steering and alternator .The alternator has staggerd back possibly from a brackett alignment issue. Has anyone had or heard of this problem please help! as i dont want to rebuild it again.We have checked alternator for fitment and have checked, compared it to another new alternator looks and fits the same is there brackett issues on 960 2.5.24V N reg?