If you can with difficulty rotate the crankshaft by hauling on the
alternator fan, that's about normal.  That's why your starter motor is
larger than one horsepower -- and a horsepower is enough to raise your
loaded van a foot in one minute.

Yrs,
d

On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:10 PM, jed batchelder <seabeejed@hotmail.com>
wrote:

> i noticed on my 83 vanagon that the pulley for the crankshaft is hard to
> spin by hand.   Is that normal. my alternator spins free with belt off and
> so does my water pump one.
>