Alternator Pulley Wheel sob story - help!

[mtamin]

:violin: Hi everybody. The faithful (until now) series 2 Maestro VP I bought for £7 of ebay last year has hit a bit of a problem. I was driving along the A38 from Burton on Trent to Bham when a load of clattering started to come from the off side front area. I did not know what it was but the car seemed to be running ok so I thought it best to press on. Then the clattering died away and I saw (and heard) something drop off. Still undeterred I carried on! The clattering had now stopped but the battery not charging light came on. Ah ha ! now it started making sense. Knowing I had a limited time to run until the battery drained to nothing I carried on and got home. Phew. Now I am left with a silly problem. The bit that dropped off was my alternator belt pulley wheel. Somehow the retaining bolt had worked its way up the thread (stripping it in the process) and left the pulley wheel free to fall off. Now I do have a brand new alternator but it does not come with a pully wheel. I have tried a number of scrapyards but to no avail. I wondered if anyone either had a serviceable alternator suitable for a 1.6S series Maestro or even a duff one which had the pulley wheel on it. I'd be willing to travel a bit to collect and would be willing to pay a little for your trouble.

[E_T_V]

Best bet is to get one from a scrap car complete with the alternator. Then if the alternator is duff then you can swap the pulley onto the new one. If it is ok then you still have a good spare!

I think the alternators from the wedge shaped rover 214's is the same.

Also be aware that there are lots of differet sized pulleys. On the side of the pully will be stamped a letter, e.g. "T" or "M". This refers to different pulley sizes. I reckon one from a rover 214 should fit without any problems.

I've heard of cars losing the bolts that secure the alt to the engine before but never the nut that secures the pulley as they are usually quite tight to remove.

[Maria]

Tried http://www.montego-and-maestro.co.uk/ ?

[mtamin]

Yes I tried them but unusually they were unable to help.

I have now found a breakers that have an alternator for £25 delivered to my door and for the sake of speed and ease I may go for that as when it fails I can at least (hopefully) transfer the pulley wheel over to my new one.

Thankyou very much for your replies

[Jack]

If you transfer the pulley, they are very hard to undo. You'll also need a torque wrench to put the new one on. Your local friendly garage should be able to do it in a trice and save you a lot of bother for very little money (assuming you have a local friendly garage!).