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:


Pulley:

 

is that a jdm pulley

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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

 

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.

 

omg.... thats scary lookin...

 

Sheesh that is ugly....

How the hell did that happen??

 

Looks VERY familiar ...

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

 

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

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

 

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.

 

Yea Ford does. The stock caged pulley is just as much a bitch to get off.