Afternoon all.

Got the car back from Glasgow eventually - home at 5am! Saved 600 over the cost of recovery at least....

Anyway, the problem was the alternator belt vanishing. How do you pick a size, given that the donor would have had power steering too? Just measure and guess?

It's a pinto, only has to go round the drive and the alternator.

Tempted to just guestimate and order a few!

Use a bit of string!...To work out length and therefore diameter.Voila.

10x863mm is for a pinto cortina, should be the same for yours.

Dave

Here is how I did it :

https://vouchtroadster.blogspot.com/2013/06/modif-du-suppor t-dalternateur-custom.html

Beginning of the post does not concern the belt, so scroll down until you find date "15/04/2013" in yellow.

Hope that will help

I used a tape measure and ended up 2 inches short! Sorted now though.