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Your alternator belt had to be replaced twice in the last 3 months why?
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∙ 16y ago
either your belt is way too tight or something is not aligned properly. try taking a straight edge and laying it across your pully's, everything should be perfectly in line The pulley on your generator is too wide trust me, I just installed a higher end "champion" replacement generator in my daugters 1993 323 and the problem has gone away... Either of the previous answers could be correct. However, contributing factors would have to be involved. If this problem started with no action preceeding it, I would think there is another answer. If everything was fine with the belt before it had to be replaced the first time, the size of the pully is not the problem.
If no work was done to the car that involved the pully's then pully alignment is not likely the cause.
The first belt may have broken simply due to wear. If the replacements were put on too loose or too tight, that would have caused premature failure. Being too loose is the most likely cause. If it were too loose, you would have experienced occasional squealing from the belt after installation. If there was work done to the car involving the belts or pully's before this problem started, look to see if that work created a situation that caused or contributed to this issue.
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