Buddy Showed Up With A Sick Car 911

[Papabear]

Buddy just showed up in my driveway with a '91 t-bird with a 302cuin/5.0L and the air pum siezed when he started the car and the local auto-parts store wants $450.00 for a replacement DOES ANYONE KNOW OF A WAY TO BY-PASS THE AIR PUMP IN THE SERPENTINE LOOP TO ELIMINATE THAT ACCESSORY WITHOUT SPINNING ANYTHING THE WRONG WAY.

 

[NCheek]

Maybe you can take the guts out of it and put it back on...

Had a similar issue with a '92 F-700. The beast had a 7.0L gasser with two air pumps. Driver's side pump locked up and put the truck in unusable for because the hydraulic pump for the brakes piggybacked off of that pulley. I took it apart, and got it freed up, and it seemed like it would work, but was then sent to the dealership for a new one. Dealership charged $700+ for the thing, and they ordered the one for the passenger side of the engine ,so it took another 3 days to get the truck back on the road...

If you can disassemble it, remove the vanes and such, and essentially make it an idler, that would be the cheapest functional option.

 

[tknomaj]

If You look at pics you should be able to route belt under tensioner pulley and then up to alternator this will not change direction of any thing but you will have to change pulley on tensioner to a grooved style or the belt will not stay on it is ok good year and others make pulleys and are 15.00or so the tensioner swings up and pushes down to tension belt it will take too people one to hold tensioner and another to install belt keep belt as short as possible as to have max tension that should get him on the road you will have to play with belt sizes to get proper length for arguement sake original belt would be 4060335 I would start with a belt 100mm shorter 4060235 or their about these numbers are made up but you get the idea or take a piece of string and route it in new pattern and measure it the last four digits of part number indicate it's length in mm. being from the great white north you should be use to that system

 

[Papabear]

Thank you for your replies but we managed to figure it out by using a 93" 6-rib belt we were able to figure a routing that would work thanks.