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The Peacemaker
Join Date: Feb 2005
Location: Kannapolis, NC
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A birthday, a bad day and a possible parting
Well yesterday was my b-day, and I decided to have a nice quiet day at the house watching movies and putting my brand new March power steering pulley on and aligning the belts. Everything went really well, blazer fired up with absolutely no problems and no squeeking or squeeling insued so I thought it was good to go. I thought horribly wrong....Today @ 8:30 am, I was headed out for a nice little drive to test out the actual daily drivability of blue and BAM, after 50minutes of driving at regular freeway speeds I hear a loud crash and a few clunks underneath the blazer, and all I can think of is the worst. I pull into the best buy parking lot with no p/s, park and pop the hood. Guess what I was missing, my friggin crank pulley....I just about lost it. I started swearing and kicking stuff on the side of the road as I was walking down the side of the highway looking for it, of course it wound up being about 30ft off the side of the road. Anyway long story short, got a tow back to the garage, lot less money then I was expecting $90 for a good 45 min flat bed tow and pushed it back into the garage. The entire time I was waiting for the towtruck and riding back to my house I was just thinking of everything that seems to go wrong with my blazer, I mean, thats all I have had since I bought the thing and I've never this many problems with my brown truck especially in this short amount of time. I got down to the thought that I might actually sell the blazer, I do really love it but being 21 now and already having one old truck to take care of, I'm not totally sure I can handle on thats eating money up like this one. Not quite sure how much, especially seeing how I really don't want to buy I new pulley right now, but you all will probably see it in the classifieds later this week.
EDIT: ![]() ![]() ![]() Last pic was taken before I set out on the road, and thanks but as you can see it is definately not a stock pulley.
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1978 Chevy 2wd Stepside aka "Audrey" Cordova brown with mandarin guts 79k original miles & being restored 1979 Chevy 2wd Short Wide aka "Emma-Jayne" Cordova brown with mandarin guts 2019 Chevy Tahoe LT Previous rides: -2002 Firehawk T/A, 2006 Trailblazer SS AWD, 2014 GMC Sierra RCSB, 1971 2wd Blazer, 1996 SNB, 1997 2dr 2wd Yukon, 2001 Silverado RCSB, 2011 Silverado Z71 4x4, 1982 2wd Blazer, 1997 2dr Tahoe, 1970 Chevelle SS, 1972 2wd Blazer, 1986 Silverado Stepside, 1995 S-10, 1985 Silverado SWB. Last edited by BabyBlue; 09-14-2007 at 11:54 AM. Reason: PICTURES |
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Right in front of you.
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Roy, Wa
Posts: 584
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Re: A birthday, a bad day and a possible parting
Is the lower pulley a stock one????
I think I have a couple....you can HAVE them if that'll get ya going again.... I'm in Roy....but can bring the pulleys to the Harvest swapmeet in Chehalis if you plan on going. I'll have a booth there on Sat the 22nd....
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Pinstriping by Josh '78 Chevy Silverado SWB (lowered, 454) '90 Chevy Sport Truck '68 Dodge Charger R/T 1930 Ford Model A Last edited by 69BBsuburban; 09-14-2007 at 11:20 AM. |
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glamoros piece o' lowlife
Join Date: Mar 2007
Location: Redford, MI
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Re: A birthday, a bad day and a possible parting
Why did the pulley fall of, bolts sheared? I take it as the crank bolt's washer ain't big enough to clapm on the pulley too? (mine is friggin huge, I can't take off pulley unless I pull crank bolt first)
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Right in front of you.
Join Date: Jan 2006
Location: Roy, Wa
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Re: A birthday, a bad day and a possible parting
Nice Blazer.....my offer stands.....unless you NEED that fancy stuff...
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Pinstriping by Josh '78 Chevy Silverado SWB (lowered, 454) '90 Chevy Sport Truck '68 Dodge Charger R/T 1930 Ford Model A |
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Registered User
Join Date: Aug 2005
Location: Twin Cities, MN
Posts: 316
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Re: A birthday, a bad day and a possible parting
Did you ever find out what caused this?
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STILL PLAYS WITH TRUX
Join Date: Nov 2002
Location: Melbourne, Fla.
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So did you use longer bolt's any loctite on the crank bolts when you installed the crank pully and torque them to the mfg spec's? Cuz i have a aluminum pully on my eng. and you really need to do this cuz aluminum will expand and contract far more than any stock steel pully and it will cause the bolts to become loose and the end result is what happened to you. I'm not saying this is what happened in you case but if you install another aluminum pully this is what you should do. Good luck and don't give up on your truck so soon it's a nice lookin' ride and things will get better for ya. |
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