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New Belts, discovered some things..

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Cerberus

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Since I basically just got this car, i've been going through things and making sure everything is good.
One of the first things i saw was an idler fragment on the subframe and a belt fragment tucked in near the coolant elbow.. so i picked up a pair of Gates Green Stripe belts.

As I was swapping them in today, I discovered the SC pulley and crank pulley for SC were both packed with rubber and cords in the grooves.
SC pulley is easy enough to clean with a knife blade but the crank pulley is harder to get to with the wheels on the ground so that will have to wait.

But the test drive afterward was more fun than normal, I can hear the supercharger whining harder than it did before, and it is pulling harder than it was, so it had to have been slipping.

positive result :th_thumbsup-wink:
 


Be careful pulling the belt from behind the crank. It has two rings on it with spaces for the crank sensor to read crank position. If you bend them you'll wipe out the crank sensor.
 
May be worth it to pull the balancer and clean it that way then put it back on.

I'm biased since I have a puller, the correct bolts for the puller and air tools.
 
I would absolutely do that, (or as i plan to do it, just clean it in place)..
however I don't even have a garage to work in and its too damned cold to be doing anything other than quick / emergency work outdoors right now.
 
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