I’m looking to maybe buy a car about 2 hours away from home and it’s really cheap partly because the alternator belt snapped and hasn’t gotten replaced yet.

I saw two options:

- Bring the belt and install it before the long drive (Never owned that model before so I am not 100% confident that I could successfully do that)

- Bring multiple car batteries for the ride home (would be super expensive)

Then I realized that since we’ll be two cars driving back home, why not stop every X amount of time and switch the batteries between the two cars to keep one of them charged. I have a portable car booster which would come in handy if we mess it up.

Am I crazy and lying to myself right now or does this sound feasible to you guys?

  • Agitated-Joey@alien.topBEnglish
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    10 months ago

    Does this alternator belt also spin the water pump? If so don’t even think about it, can’t drive a car with a water pump that doesn’t pump. It will immediately overheat and blow up.

    But if this belt only runs the alternator from the crank, then yes this would work.