My water pump belt went bye bye and I didn't notice it for about 2 weeks
Seems to run fine...

I cannot find a replacement anywhere here in town. I ended going back to the parts store 3 times today because we cannot find the right size for it.


Help?

edit: its the skinny v-belt between alternator and water pump.

 

Sounds like the secondary air pump belt that failed and it does not drive the water pump but the water pump drives the secondary air pump for emissions.

The water pump is driven by a Poly Vee belt around the crank,alt and coolant pump.
There is another belt to the A/C compressor.

If your coolant pump belt went BYE-BYE then you would NOT be able to drive your car for 2 weeks unless each trip was less that a few miles.

bob gauff

 

Bless you sir! You just made my day.

Any ill-effect on running it like this until I can find a belt that fits?

 

I took the belt off my 1992 XJ6 air pump, removed the pump and installed an X300 Electrolux electric pump to make it look like the car still had all the factory emissions equipment (I have boxes of faulty P0411 pumps). I live in a rural area so we don't have emissions testing but I still wanted the pipes and hoses to go somewhere. I never got around to wiring the electric pump to the belt driven clutch circuit to operate properly.........But it looks factory!!

bob gauff

 

I`m glad that I too live in a state w/o emissions or any other inspections for that matter.
Looks like I`m not going to worry about it for a while...got to pour loads of money in our Volvo first


Thanks for your reply!