This has me baffled. I moved the belt back where it goes, but it walked back again.

The alternator pulley and tensioner pulley both line up evenly. The AC pulley and power steering pulley both line up. I can't tell the alignment between AC and alt. Sometimes it looks even, sometimes it doesn't.

Last I checked, none of the pulleys can move.

The tensioner and alt pulleys both got hit by the plaster washer fluid bottle. I replaced the tensioner pulley, alt pulley is fine.

I can't see how anything could have moved?

The belt is walking back 1.5-2 grooves on the AC pulley only.

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When I was looking over your teardown pic's something didn’t look right to me to me it looked like your a/c compressor was pushed back some.

Something is bent up I could see it just not sure what it is

 

I just looked again and I think its the alternator

 

OK this looks weird this is from one of your pic's



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Im begining to think you have more than one thing bent

Did the a/c compressor get hit and did the alternator get hit?

What ever got hit thats it

 

only the alt and tensioner got hit, but neither can move, considering what they are mounted to, and they were just hit by the plastic washer fluid tank, nothing solid (punched a hole thru the tank). I was told to take the alternator pulley off and try to put a washer behind it or something and move it out. I'm gonna see if I can squeeze a straight edge across the pulley faces in the AM.

 

Check the mounting ears of the alternator very closely and you may find they were bent back

 

close but no cigar. I started straight-edging things, noticed the smooth pulley wasn't quite straight.

After turning a few wrenches, found this. Dug a replacement from our bolt bucket (3/8-16) and all is good now.

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You might want to replace the idler just on the off chance the Bering is damaged

 

the race is independant of the bolt and bearing, so everything should be fine.