Volks - I will be posting this on the diesel vanagon group list, so please
pardon the overkill, but I am in need of some info pretty quick.

Yesterday, while pulling my int shaft pulley to fix a leaky seal, I broke
the pulley (ribbed belt pulley).  My part has 068 115 021 on it, no suffix.
ETKA says this part was replaced with suffix A in 1977, five years before my
Vanagon was built.  It has a thin flange around the edge, which is the part
that broke (about 1 inch long section cracked off).  ETKA says that for all
years of diesel vanagon that pulley should be the suffix D, which has no
flange.

I also have the original single timing belt cover setup as in ETKA
illustration 8-20 as is expected with my 82, that is, without the bottom
belt cover, without the backing plate and newer injection pump mount, etc.

I am in need of a new pulley and a used one will be here on tuesday, but it
will not have the flanges on it, and probably is suffix D version.  Will
this work or will the belt slip off causing catastrophic failure?  I am
thinking it will not because of the tensioner flange but I better check here
with the higher authorities first.  Any and all comments welcome.

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Alan Felder
Austin TX
82 Diesel Westy