!!! LET Motorsports Pulley Failure !!!
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Update - first off, thanks to everyone's replies from about a week ago. Last Saturday, I was able to FedEx my seized bearing back to LET for their analysis. They should have it this Wednesday (11/26/08).
I also sent back savvy75's ASP idler, as I did not need the part - just the bearing (thanks savvy75
- figured you'd want to install the "coming soon" bearing into the part anyway, as an available idler replacement to have on hand).
For those not following along, a lot of good information continues to develop in the crossfire forum thread:
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29502
Additional information LET and/or ASP kit owners may want to peruse:
LET offering a replacement idler bearing for all LET and ASP kit owners:
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29523
LET is recalling ALL version 1 water pump pulleys (both 181 and 185 kits) - should be updated to the current version ASAP (i.e. running the old version is risky, as they all seem to be failing prematurely):
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29486
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29497
As for those who felt (or feel...) that this thread should be closed - I respectfully disagree. These threads (the one here and the identical one on crossfire forum) have to date generated 330 replies and 6,000 views - and the vast majority of replies have been extremely useful information helping to improve the quality of hardware available for our cars. As forum members, of course we each enjoy the individual freedom to choose what threads we view or don't view - so if you aren't interested or don't have anything to contribute, that's okay, just skip over this one
I also sent back savvy75's ASP idler, as I did not need the part - just the bearing (thanks savvy75
- figured you'd want to install the "coming soon" bearing into the part anyway, as an available idler replacement to have on hand).For those not following along, a lot of good information continues to develop in the crossfire forum thread:
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29502
Additional information LET and/or ASP kit owners may want to peruse:
LET offering a replacement idler bearing for all LET and ASP kit owners:
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29523
LET is recalling ALL version 1 water pump pulleys (both 181 and 185 kits) - should be updated to the current version ASAP (i.e. running the old version is risky, as they all seem to be failing prematurely):
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29486
http://www.crossfireforum.org/forum/...ad.php?t=29497
As for those who felt (or feel...) that this thread should be closed - I respectfully disagree. These threads (the one here and the identical one on crossfire forum) have to date generated 330 replies and 6,000 views - and the vast majority of replies have been extremely useful information helping to improve the quality of hardware available for our cars. As forum members, of course we each enjoy the individual freedom to choose what threads we view or don't view - so if you aren't interested or don't have anything to contribute, that's okay, just skip over this one
