Things just got real. PULLEY FELL OFF.
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I was thinking about doing a keyway out toward front of snout but how the heck did you manage to actually cut a STRAIGHT channel for the keyway? You said you used a dremel and then with the engine in the car you don't have barely any room (unless you took whole front end off) to make things worse, just was just amazed how you got it straight to have a good fit for a new key.
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Sorry to hear about this stuff happening, and I was wondering why I have'nt had problems like belts sliding off or crankshaft pulley coming off. I brought my car with the k8 in it two years ago. So aftermarket crank pulley and belt pullies in it with 103,000 miles and no problems with this stuff. With no disrespect to any one, but is it the manufacturer of these parts. I dont know half as much as you guys on here but just does not seem right. By the way ERB your car looks tight.
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A sad sight. I feel for you man.
I had a solid crank pulley on my celica back in 2006...took 6 months for the vibrations to shatter the oil pump to pieces...it wasn't pretty.
All the best with the repairs man. Your car is a beast!
I had a solid crank pulley on my celica back in 2006...took 6 months for the vibrations to shatter the oil pump to pieces...it wasn't pretty.
All the best with the repairs man. Your car is a beast!
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Looks like you will be BIP's first crank exchange customer from those pictures. You probably can't see the key way because when the pulley came loose it spun over the keyway and ground it down into the crank. My crank actually welded itself to the pulley when it and loose.
I looked the best I could with my eyes and then used a mirror to look more from the top and the bottom of the car when I couldn't see the key. I will try to look some more and better tomorrow. I will definitely be either pinning this new stock pulley or making a new keyway for something better than the tiny key that is used. Guess I need to talk to BIP/Craig about this pin kit.
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Looks like you will be BIP's first crank exchange customer from those pictures. You probably can't see the key way because when the pulley came loose it spun over the keyway and ground it down into the crank. My crank actually welded itself to the pulley when it and loose.
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Now that you say that, I see exactly what you are talking about in the 3 o clock position.
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from what i understand , the welded pulley have the harmonic balancer welded sandwiched in, while the pulleys like urbamworm and i had do not and i think this causes them to vibrate the bolt enough over time to cause it to lose its clamping force and ultimatley come undone like both of ours did. just like his, mine took some time to come undone so i believe it was torqued correctly at first but harmonic vibration perhaps vibrated the bolt long enough to cause it to lose its clamping force and back out.
when i took my car in for repair after my pulley came of the tech said he would never use an unwelded pulley due to lack of harmonic balancing, so i bought a welded ASP pulley the second time around and had it pinned to the crankshaft which should also act mush like a larger key GT-ER as speaking of
totally sucks for op, as i know what he's going through and its no fun at all
when i took my car in for repair after my pulley came of the tech said he would never use an unwelded pulley due to lack of harmonic balancing, so i bought a welded ASP pulley the second time around and had it pinned to the crankshaft which should also act mush like a larger key GT-ER as speaking of
totally sucks for op, as i know what he's going through and its no fun at all
This is similar to the ASP pulley except that the rubber is replaced with springs:
Better or worse? Who knows.
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I was thinking about doing a keyway out toward front of snout but how the heck did you manage to actually cut a STRAIGHT channel for the keyway? You said you used a dremel and then with the engine in the car you don't have barely any room (unless you took whole front end off) to make things worse, just was just amazed how you got it straight to have a good fit for a new key.
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Gotcha. I am gonna talk to Craig about the little pin kit he used and will probably just do that since it will be nice and straight. I forgot about the tool to hold the crank pulley in place while torquing the new bolt though. I need to look in to that. The tow truck driver gave me the name of a place locally that is supposibly 2 techs that used to work at the Brumos Mercedes Benz dealer and opened up their own place so I may swing by there tomorrow and talk to those guys too.
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Gotcha. I am gonna talk to Craig about the little pin kit he used and will probably just do that since it will be nice and straight. I forgot about the tool to hold the crank pulley in place while torquing the new bolt though. I need to look in to that. The tow truck driver gave me the name of a place locally that is supposibly 2 techs that used to work at the Brumos Mercedes Benz dealer and opened up their own place so I may swing by there tomorrow and talk to those guys too.
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I really don't know any places in the area, this place is called All Euro Car Care off Atlantic just past the Porsche dealer on the opposite side of the road across from Gate gas station. I think I have noticed that Omega place though when driving on 9a, never paid much attention to what it was though.
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I really don't know any places in the area, this place is called All Euro Car Care off Atlantic just past the Porsche dealer on the opposite side of the road across from Gate gas station. I think I have noticed that Omega place though when driving on 9a, never paid much attention to what it was though.
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Well I have a stock pulley on the way and a crank pinning tool/kit on the way tomorrow, so hopefully Wednesday I will have them both and get to work on making this thing road worth again. I will take a little time tomorrow to clean up the crank with the scotch brite pad or emory cloth like I mentioned and put my new voltage regulator in and probably order a new battery control module tonight as well to hopefully solve those problems.
Then hopefully Friday Eurocharged will be getting bearings back in stock for the supercharger pullies and will get one of those shipped out shortly after then have Jerry set me up with a different tune for the stock crank pulley, smaller supercharger pulley setup. Guess I will go ahead and take off my 80mm throttle body while I am at it and do the throttle body shaft grind job on it to get a little more flow in there as well since the inside is really only 78mm. Gotta keep myself occupied tomorrow so I don't go crazy thinking about getting this thing fixed.
Then hopefully Friday Eurocharged will be getting bearings back in stock for the supercharger pullies and will get one of those shipped out shortly after then have Jerry set me up with a different tune for the stock crank pulley, smaller supercharger pulley setup. Guess I will go ahead and take off my 80mm throttle body while I am at it and do the throttle body shaft grind job on it to get a little more flow in there as well since the inside is really only 78mm. Gotta keep myself occupied tomorrow so I don't go crazy thinking about getting this thing fixed.
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Gotcha. I am gonna talk to Craig about the little pin kit he used and will probably just do that since it will be nice and straight. I forgot about the tool to hold the crank pulley in place while torquing the new bolt though. I need to look in to that. The tow truck driver gave me the name of a place locally that is supposibly 2 techs that used to work at the Brumos Mercedes Benz dealer and opened up their own place so I may swing by there tomorrow and talk to those guys too.
Push comes to shove, even if the pinning fails you can still go parallel style anyways.
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Yeah, I am going to put 2 pins in, one on each side. I will also after cleaning the crank up see if I can get the little piece of key out of it to replace it as well or if I am going to just have to leave it be. I guess all I have is time right now though waiting on the stuff to come so I will give it my best shot and hopefully get it out and looking good tomorrow.
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Yeah, I am going to put 2 pins in, one on each side. I will also after cleaning the crank up see if I can get the little piece of key out of it to replace it as well or if I am going to just have to leave it be. I guess all I have is time right now though waiting on the stuff to come so I will give it my best shot and hopefully get it out and looking good tomorrow.
