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Spanky99L Oct 12, 2002 10:54 PM

My Lower Pulley Broke Off it's Bolts
 
I lost all boost on the way home and checked everything. even took off the upper intake and made sure the rotors were spinning and they were. I reached over and touched the S/C belt and it moved. I could actually mone the pulley and belt with barely any strength. Took off the lower pulley and here is what i found:

Spindle:
https://www.f150online.com/galleries...2607-34328.jpg

Pulley:
https://www.f150online.com/galleries...2607-34329.jpg

Gen2 Lightning Oct 12, 2002 10:59 PM

is that a jdm pulley

Crazyone Oct 12, 2002 11:36 PM

Gen2, who else offers them top notch babies?

Brandon

PS at least you don;t have to put a pipe wrench on the pulley =) LMAO

SVT_KY Oct 12, 2002 11:52 PM

"on a very safe chip tune!!! " ---- Now all you need is
some stronger "engineered" threads, huh?

mecca Oct 13, 2002 01:52 AM

That's the first case of that ive seen yet... Wow, that musta been a horrible feeling in your stomache when you noticed all your boost dropped...

-Mike

Rob_02Lightning Oct 13, 2002 08:09 AM

All you need to do is pull that bad spindle off and bolt a new style Pulley "NO CAGE UNIT" right on, 3 bolts, easy fix, more HP.
Never seen that happen before ? I'll tell you one thing, it makes we want to go check all my allan bolts holding my upper and lower Pulleys on :eek:

Spanky99L Oct 13, 2002 07:03 PM

Here is the Only way i could get the spindle off the harmonic balancer:

https://www.f150online.com/galleries...2607-34454.jpg

https://www.f150online.com/galleries...2607-34455.jpg

RTKILLA Oct 13, 2002 07:23 PM

lord have mercy!!!!!!!!!!

I would scrap the JDM pulley idea and get a PSP or JL pulley that doesn't break like that.


thats the nice thing about the PSP and JL pulleys, There simple stupid so there's not much that can go wrong unless you don't use locktite.

blown318 Oct 13, 2002 07:43 PM

omg.... thats scary lookin...:(

blowntruck Oct 13, 2002 11:51 PM

Sheesh that is ugly....

How the hell did that happen??

SVT_KY Oct 16, 2002 08:54 PM

Looks VERY familiar ...

I am still waiting for my replacement from JDM ...

https://www.f150online.com/galleries...1150-28904.jpg

boostedtruck Oct 17, 2002 09:32 AM

I had to take a 36" pipe wrench to my spindle as well.....

JDM has a replacement for me on its way though...

SpankDog Oct 17, 2002 09:51 AM

Looks like someone needs to re-design their pulleys.

boostedtruck Oct 17, 2002 10:34 AM


Originally posted by SpankDog
Looks like someone needs to re-design their pulleys.
They did.... My pulley was from the first batch of the interchangeable setup. They have since modified the setup.

BadAzz516 Oct 17, 2002 10:42 AM


Originally posted by SpankDog
Looks like someone needs to re-design their pulleys.
Yea Ford does. The stock caged pulley is just as much a bitch to get off. :eek:


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