[mkiv] Drive Pulley woes

[Casey Ausmus]

   Mine broke too. You'll find it's one of the few but very common failures on Supra's. I replaced mine with an Unorthodox Racing(Billet) pulley but I wouldn't reccomend it even though it was the cheapest and lightest alternative. I drive my car everyday and the idle is a bit rough now. The SFI approved dampened pulley from Boost Logic would be they way to go IMHO. You get the improved response without the idle being adversely affected.
 
   Also, if you mess up with the puller getting the pulley off, I have a $50 tap bought from a specialty German tool company that will rethread the crank. =P
 
-Casey
'96 TT

"W.F. (Bill) Lawry" <cmci at fcc.net> wrote:
My drive pulley broke too (somewhere around the 200K mark). The cause was
my A/C compressor freezing up. I guess that any accessory or a combination
could put enough load on the belt to break the drive pulley.

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bob" 
To: 
Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 10:30 PM
Subject: [mkiv] Drive Pulley woes


>
>
> Hi, folks
>
> I thought my serpentine belt broke today on my '94 TT but it turns out
that
> the drive pulley fell apart. Apparently it's a two piece thing with some
> rubber inbetween. Thankfully, it happened less than a block from my home.
>
> My question is this...is there any way to repair this or am I stuck
pulling
> and replacing the complete part? If so, do you have any guesses what kind
of
> a price these things go for? My problem is that my other car ('91 MR2)
just
> lost it's fuel pump so now I'm out of wheels for the first time in my life
> (both first failures for either car and in the same week!)
>
> Thanks so much,
>
> Bob
>
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