A thing, not as it should be

by "Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
Published 08/09/2017 at 15:37

Tags: Belts ; Air con ; FTO
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Here we meet a 6PK 1076 (six Vs, 1076mm) accessory drive belt. No, it shouldn’t have a gap in it.

The long running tale of my a/c clutch and bearing has reached its sad conclusion after many years when the load from the disintegrating bearing has finally been too much. Yesterday an alarming amount of smoke issued, today there was less smoke but when I took a look I found a belt hanging forlornly from a pulley. Oddly it waited until I stopped the engine to break.

Given the difficulties in obtaining bits for a car that went out of production 17 years ago I’m considering bypassing the a/c which presents its own little difficulty. A 938mm belt can be made to fit albeit it’ll be very tight, a 948mm won’t tension and they don’t do anything between 6PK938 and 6PK948. In an ideal world you’d get a 6PK941 or so.

I could of course drive without the belt but steering at anything less than about walking speed is very nearly impossible. Yes, it drives the steering too.

Replies (6)

"Echo51" (echo2047)
08/09/2017 at 15:44, STARS: 1

I know that feel, it’s not nice.

6pk940 should exist from my lookup, BOSCH Varenr: 1 987 948 434

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"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/09/2017 at 15:54, STARS: 0

Oh, that’s interesting. I’ll see if I can find any nearer than Norway.

"Echo51" (echo2047)
08/09/2017 at 15:56, STARS: 0

Number should translate across the german parts websites(pkw-teile and autodoc), and presumably also your locals

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/09/2017 at 16:01, STARS: 1

I see that Dayco (who made the original) do actually make 6PK940 belts.

"pip bip - choose Corrour" (hhgttg69)
08/10/2017 at 06:05, STARS: 0

6pk940 perhaps?

"Cé hé sin" (michael-m-mouse)
08/10/2017 at 07:09, STARS: 0

Asked for one of those, was told that the 938 and 940 are really the same size but some makers round off the number. So I bought a 938.