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With the AC clutch not engaged (which you could make permanent just by disconnecting the clutch wiring connector, or by removing the Klima relay) you should have a free-wheeling AC pulley, so you could run the normal belt. If something also happened to the AC pulley, you could just replace the clutch then use the stock belt. If you can just bypass the pulley, skip to the next one in other words, if there is nothing that interferes with that path (what would it be, from the crank pulley to the alternator?) then yes you could experiment with belt lengths and bypass it. Usually it's not that simple, something else will be obstructing the path, just eyeball it and see what you think. Are you sure the outer part of the compressor pulley (the part with the grooves in it) is really locked? Usually it's just the inner part that locks, not the actually pulley, not when the clutch is disengaged. You might be able to take the clutch apart, get rid of some broken pieces, and put it back together and have a spinning AC pulley.
Gilly
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