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My mother's car broke down right before I left the country. A couple months later I find out that some pulley broke off and that the belt has been hanging out of the hood and getting weathered while being pinched/deformed.
The auto parts place asked me if she had AC or not because there were two different belts for that. They also needed to know what engine she had because the belts were obviously different between engines. The broken part was an AC bypass pulley so it seems like we could leave that out and go with the shorter "no AC" belt but they don't seem to have that option for this engine.
I ended up spending almost 3x as much only to see that the diagram indicates that there should be a shorter belt for this engine:
Try as I might, I can't find this part online. Perhaps AC was standard for this year model. Perhaps it's mentioned in the service manual, which I don't have. If anyone know how to find it, I would appreciate your help!
Since the belt needs to be replaced anyway it just makes sense to me that we get the right belt instead of going through all this again at 3x the price. The pulley mount that broke is made out of some brittle metal that's so crappy it feels like plastic and I doubt the new one will be any better.
Her car is a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera S with the V6 engine.
The auto parts place asked me if she had AC or not because there were two different belts for that. They also needed to know what engine she had because the belts were obviously different between engines. The broken part was an AC bypass pulley so it seems like we could leave that out and go with the shorter "no AC" belt but they don't seem to have that option for this engine.
I ended up spending almost 3x as much only to see that the diagram indicates that there should be a shorter belt for this engine:
Try as I might, I can't find this part online. Perhaps AC was standard for this year model. Perhaps it's mentioned in the service manual, which I don't have. If anyone know how to find it, I would appreciate your help!
Since the belt needs to be replaced anyway it just makes sense to me that we get the right belt instead of going through all this again at 3x the price. The pulley mount that broke is made out of some brittle metal that's so crappy it feels like plastic and I doubt the new one will be any better.
Her car is a 1990 Oldsmobile Cutlass Ciera S with the V6 engine.