Looks good Mike. Did you press the pulley onto the cage using Locktite? What bushing material is that?
Looks good Mike. Did you press the pulley onto the cage using Locktite? What bushing material is that?
Curious on the bushing material as well and when you expect to unload of few more of them.
Its possible my lower bearing is starting to howl and Im concerned the 3.00 upper will slip a little anyways....let me know.
Oh man! :burnout:The pulley is installed and I put about 35 miles on the car today of back road boost filled driving and the pulley performed flawlessly. With my 2.9" upper and 4lb lower the car pulls 22.5psi on the TVS.
Oh man! :burnout:
Nice work Mike! I have to come up and check it out sometime.
You like my home powder coating kit getting some more use? lol.I love the anti tightening setup. I may do something like that in the future for my car.
Here is a word of caution regarding the bearing in the small pulley. Since that pulley now has to turn over twice as fast as it did when it was the stock factory size keep a close watch on it. Actually take the belt off and spin it by hand. The bearings have been known to fail when spun that fast.
On the original run of caged lowers several people had the tiny bearing fail. The solution for them was going to a fully ceramic bearing. I'll go back to the thread about it on ModFords and see what the part number and price were.
The people that had the failures were all running an "8 pound" pulley. That was spinning the small idler pulley so fast the bearings failed after an unexpectedly short time.
You like my home powder coating kit getting some more use? lol.
If you want I can see about getting an extra anti tightening hub made for you when I'm at the machine shop.....I know I know it all depends on price. I'll text you when I know more incase you want in on one.