Has anyone had any front main bearing troubles running a cageless lower pulley. The reason the cage was originally included was to help elimintate the chances of a problem.

 

One of the tuners broke a crank off near the front recently. Rumor was it was a cast crank but the requested pics never showed up...

 

The cage was included to eliminate chances of a problem?

Well, since the stock pulley weighs a fawking TON, the cage is necessary.

Cageless pulleys are very lightweight in comparison so to answer your statement/question. Not that I've seen, read, or heard about.

Bob

 

whats nice about cageless pulleys is that they actually come off when you need them too

 

55,900 miles with a cage-less pulley on since the 4,000 mile mark--no problems !

Dan

 

one of the local tuners told me it can wear out the thrust bearings, but many people have been running these motors many miles without problems

 

I went with JDM's cage pulley it screws on like the stock one no three bolts to worry about coming loose just my 2 cents also eather one you use you may have some new blower belt noise at idle in gear with the AC on (belt flop) otherwise fine

 

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you know a really cool thing about the cage-less pulleys?

if your accessory belt was to ever break, you can replace it without removing the stock (or aftermarket caged) pulley!!!