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nylon pulley spacer
i want to make a pulley spacer for my crankshaft to line my pulleys up.
i currently have a 1/4 aluminum spacer i made for the water pump pulley, which lines it up with the outer (larger) groove on the crank.... in order to keep the crank pulley register, i need to make it 1/2" thick, and then i can also keep the 1/4" WP pulley on to line up the proper grooves in which case, it needs to be an additional 1/8" thick for the register (if i removed the WP pulley spacer and tried to make a 1/4" crank pulley spacer, i'd have a wall of about .020 thick around the pulley register, so i figured i'd make it 1/2", plus 1/8 to cut a register into...) HOWEVER....i have no 5/8 aluminum plate, and buying it would be beyond my desires, and we have various grades of nylon at work....i thought about cutting a spacer out of nylon and machining it to the desired specs.....but don't know if that's such a good idea....would the pulley bolts keep it sandwiched well to keep it from flying apart at high rpm?? i could make it large enough to also be captured by the inner surface of the balancer....... just a thought.... or maybe the belt will be fine on the larger pulley anyway???? the alternator and high flow water pump will definitely be spinning faster.... |
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I had a nylon pulley adapter, I was borrowing it and it worked fine, I made an alum one and returned the nylon one. He still uses his and it has no problems. I would of went with nylon, but I had a chunk of alum laying around and didnt feel like getting the nylon. easy to machine, thats for sure.
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