Hey guys,
Amidst the thousand and one bushings, ball joints and bits I'm changing out on the XJ at the moment, I thought I'd finally put on my A/C delete belt as the A/C hasn't worked in over a decade and was all totally rotted to death anyway.
I have a 6pk2275 belt as per the recommendation from past threads on here, and sure enough it seems to fit just fine (I'd probably go at least 2260 for a bit extra tension due to the lessened mechanical fan pulley contact, but that's just me). The problem is, once bypassed, the new belt routing actually has the belt making some kind of contact to the little timing mark stub on the front right of the crankshaft / balancer pulley. Has anyone else experienced this before?? Here's a pic;
It's BARELY contacting, but it is. Looking at the belt from a side angle at the straight edge I can barely make out a faint indentation, I mean we'd be talking microns here probably, but it's still contact. For anyone else who has done the A/C bypass like this, does your belt route this close to that timing stub? Is mine just weird? I'd feel better just knowing that this is how it is, I just hate having literally ZERO tolerance for error in the event something moves somehow some day, you know?
Cheers
P.s. Shock absorbers replaced, lower control arm bushings replaced (that $50 ball joint press tool does NOT do LCA bushings btw, found that out the hard way, had to smash the new bushings back in with blocks of hardwood and a mallet). One side's ball joints done too. Making good progress!