Can you remember how hard it was to take it apart ...?
Zoltan
----- Original Message -----
From: "Tom Young" <tomyoung1@COMCAST.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 3:50 PM
Subject: Re: WTB: woodruff key

>I can't find any mention of a Woodruff key in ETKA (illustration 131-10)
> which shows all the mounting components of the alternator.  I'm certain
> I've
> had my alternator apart in the past and can't remember seeing one.  The
> shaft that the pulley slips on to is slotted for a Woodruff key?
> ---------------------------------------------------
> Tom Young
> Lafayette, CA 94549
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> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "Conrad Klahn" <conradk@MAC.COM>
> To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
> Sent: Monday, August 22, 2005 8:11 AM
> Subject: WTB: woodruff key
>
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> Anyone out there have a spare woodruff key you would be willing to
>> throw in an envelope and sell me?
>>
>> In replacing what I thought was a bad alternator, I find that the
>> alternator did not have a woodruff key - nor did the replacement I
>> bought from Bus Depot. All the parts stores (a) don't know what a
>> woodruff key is, or (b) laugh and say that it should have come with
>> the alternator. I would go back to BD, but this is the third time
>> I've ordered a part that was missing pieces, or damaged upon receipt
>> - they also don't list a separate woodruff key.
>>
>> This is for an '80 aircooled, but I suppose any bosch alternator
>> woodruff key would work? If you know of the size of this thing, that
>> would also help - I bought one from CIP1, but it was too small.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Conrad
>