Pulley 101 .......info for dummies like me

[Supercharged SS]

Originally Posted by lexlueger

9.97 @139!

Dick!! Is this Hufferss?

That won't cut. I'll be faster than that on Sept 7!!

Plus it you went that fast you'd shit your depends!!

[lexlueger]

Originally Posted by Supercharged SS

Dick!! Is this Hufferss?

That won't cut. I'll be faster than that on Sept 7!!

Plus it you went that fast you'd shit your depends!!

Huffer?What/who is that?! I've heard of paint huffers . You'll probably quit after I beat your time. Good thing I got you to clean me up DOC..you take medicare!?

[Kronix]

Originally Posted by Supercharged SS

I put a towel over my TB then the pry bar. I'd use like at least a 2' one. A 1' won't get enough leverage. It's takes a shit ton of force to push the idler tight.


Post the bely number and the pulley size.

Ok off to the hard ware store to get a 2ft skinny pry bar,be back tomorrow for latest report, wish me luck! 3.8 Pilley wis

[pierre777]

Bro mine was done by putting a long bolt supplied with the Maggie right under the throttle body and use it to support the pry bar ,I think I have a pic of it here in my computer I'm gonna try and find it.

[pierre777]

can't seem tom get my photobucket to open i'll try again later and post you the pic.

[PQ]

All this prying that hard is soooooo unnecessary.

He's prying against the belt wrap AND strength of the tensioner.

OMG,,,,, you need to do them at the same time.

Why the hell would you pry on the idler AGAINST the tension the on the belt when you can release tension temporarily on the belt?

Kronix is obviously prying against the belt. He even said the belt seems too small.

Kronix, if you are prying against the tension of the belt and NOT holding the tensioner open (released tensione) then you are spending a lot of effort for nothing.

Somebody please tell me what I'm missing here?

[PQ]

I just went outside and took mine loose and then retightened it on video to show you. It really is very easy.

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When the vid loads you will see that I was able to pry it over with one hand on a fairly short screw driver holding a video camera with little effort.

Just need a second person to make it easy.

The pic below is what I ended up with. I can get them closer but it was real quick and I could pry it a bit harder later.

Just check the tensioner stops to make sure the tensioner is mostly wound.

[PQ]

Kronix, please don't use a big pry bar on that thing. You just don't need to and you'll only mess shit up.

[lexlueger]

I never touch the tensioner unless I'm completely removing the belt. You have no belt wrap that way. With the screw in place and the proper belt size the idler will touch the tensioner.
The way you do it in the video does not wrap that belt around the bottom of the pulley. IMO. I could be wrong.

[blufin]

Won't there b the same amount of belt wrap no matter how you tighten things up? It may change where the belt wrap is but I don't see how the method chosen would effect things.

[lexlueger]

Originally Posted by blufin

Won't there b the same amount of belt wrap no matter how you tighten things up? It may change where the belt wrap is but I don't see how the method chosen would effect things.

The tensioner moves from right to left under load(no lateral/vertical movement in the idler,so "wrap angle" is constant) . If most of your belt wrap is on the load side of the tensioner what happens to your belt wrap?
Again, I'm no expert but I did stay at a holiday inn express last night.

[PQ]

It's going to even up anyway. Start your engine and watch the tensioner bounce. The belt is going to settle in with even tension on both sides of the blower pulley no matter what.

To only pry on the idler is crazy. It's a lot of pressure on the pry points for nothing.

[Kronix]

Originally Posted by PQ

Kronix, please don't use a big pry bar on that thing. You just don't need to and you'll only mess shit up.

PQ, Thanks for the video it really shed some light and I appreciate you taking the time to make that for me. When I try to move my tensioner to the right it seems like I don't get as much play as you do, maybe a couple millimeters if that but it certainly doesn't loosen the belt like you did. It seems there's that stopper on the tensioner that stops it from going too far to the right. It's amazing you could get them that close. Today I had to go for a cruise so I left the idler pulley where it was about 3 inches from the tensioner, I noticed that the car would surge will in mid gear just cruising. Is this an effect of where the idler pulley was? Before I loosened it yesterday the car ran perfectly and now this? I'm so frustrated with this after reading how easy is should be and what a tough time I'm having with it. You guys have been so much more helpful than the sponsor that sold me the tensioner, t seems like I barely get 5 word sentences from him, and I thought he'd have the fix for this but you guys have spent more time trying to help me. I just want to know is the bogging/surging related to the pulley now? I can't understand it, as it ran perfect a day ago...I just couldn't leave well enough alone. Thats again for the video PQ and I will try your method tomorrow and let you know how it comes out...I wish you were close to I'd have a second set of hands and your mind to help me!

[chappy48]

Not a defense for the sponsor, but they tend to deal with and talk to 100's of people a day, emails, calls, etc... Have you tried calling and talking to them directly? They might be looking at an inbox with 100's of emails, and have to keep it short to talk to everyone.