3G Alternator and V-Belt Misfortune
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Your pulley is a dual belt for a non diesel application, they wont work. get a good used diesel pulley, it will stop giving you fits.
renjaminfrankln
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I'll file this into "things I intend to do someday after all the important stuff is fixed"
aka it will likely not get done unless I have to pull the engine for some reason
I have the one from my old alternator, does it just come off by that nut or is it also pressed on? I hate this pressed crap I can never get it to come off.
It unbolts, you will just need to hold the alt from spinning
Thank God. I need all new pulley removers everything my grandfather had for this stuff in my garage is so worn out its worthless now.
I normally hit the nut with the ugga dugga. Sometimes it will back off without having to hold it. If it just spins, I carefully put a screwdriver or the like in the fan. That nut isn’t normally crazy tight.
Neither was the nut on the flywheel of the small snowblower I was working on in my small engine thread. That was scary after I drill started it the other night and the nut hopped off and the flywheel was wobbling.
whiteboyslo
FNG
First I've ever heard of a pulley being 'non diesel'. What's the difference?
Like I said, I'm running this same alternator. No issues.
Mike
Some day I might message u about ur old wore out.tools I'm a vintage collector but right now need to get truck running n a few other things tied up
Brian, just in case it happens to you, I had to put a thin washer in under the pulley to stop it from rubbing on the case when I did mine. Got a "machine bushing" the right size at the local Tractor Supply. Some people don't need to so you might get lucky anyway.
Come to think of it the ebay page for the part number does say it's for a 92-94 E250/E350 van with a 7.3 so I am kinda confused. But the pulleys do appear to be a different size... hmm..
I would assume he noticed because the vacuum pump belt is sitting way too far down in the groove. A double belt pulley for a gasser would have two grooves the same width, as opposed to the Diesel pulley having a smaller groove for the vacuum pump belt.
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Weird thing is my old pulley on the stock alternator has two grooves that are the same.. this is my old alternator with the same belts as in that video of my new alternator.
