[V8] V8 steam engine

[Dave Saad]

I ended up making a tool - this is an early version. I have since made a little stronger one but in both cases, it probably takes less time to come up with a tool than to freeze your nards off while messing with a pipe wrench.  You are also quite likely to damage the pulley with any sort of wrench that grabs the pulley surface, including strap wrenches.
If you want to buy something, Ford uses a similar setup, and generic tools exist for around $30 if  recall.

If your bearing is indeed bad, it is the same as the oil pump drive and that one was quite a bit cheaper because it does not come with the fan mount part, but your old one should be just fine (unless you end up shooting it off).

http://www.icehouse.net/dsaad/images/DSC00014.JPG

Dave



On Jan 3, 2011, at 4:27 PM, Mark Kalbskopf wrote:

> OK, so I pulled the serpentine belt off and  .. .da dah!   bliss,    
> the sound stopped.
> So that narrows it down to the alternator, or the viscous fan, because  
> it's definitely something physically close to the passenger side  
> timing belt cover.
> The alternator spins freely, the fan sounds rough.
> So I tried removing the fan. It's a pig. The nut is supposed to be a  
> left hand thread, but I can't keep the pulley still while I put  
> tremendous force on the big nut.
> I'm holding the big nut with an adjustable wrench because I don't have  
> an open-ended anywhere near that size, and of course there's simply no  
> room.
> 
> Once the fan is off, does that pulley come off with those 3 little  
> bolts?
> 
> I was hoping to re-install the serpentine belt without the viscous  
> fan, and see if the noise was gone, but right now I'm stuck and it's  
> freezing!
> 
> Mark.
> 
> 
> 
> On Jan 2, 2011, at 7:37 PM, Ed Kellock wrote:
> 
>> Pull the accessory drive belt and run the engine.  This will isolate  
>> the
>> timing belt rollers, bearings, water pump, etc. and possibly yield  
>> some good
>> news.
>> 
>> Ed
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: v8-bounces at audifans.com [mailto:v8-bounces at audifans.com] On  
>> Behalf Of
>> Mark Kalbskopf
>> Sent: Sunday, January 02, 2011 12:56 PM
>> To: v8 at audifans.com
>> Subject: [V8] V8 steam engine
>> 
>> 
>> OK, 210K miles on the car and the timing belt, idler bearings etc were
>> last replaced at 160K.
>> For some time I've had a noise coming from the timing belt area, upper
>> left when I face the engine from the front.
>> It sounded like a roller bearing or something. Well, I've been
>> ignoring it until now, but its beginning to sound like a steam engine
>> with a regular chugging and various rough /grinding noises.
>> Is this the idler pulley and adjusting rollers going bad, or does
>> whatever the camshaft spins in, go bad?
>> 
>> (And I was trying so hard to get the car through until the end of her
>> last year at college!)
>> 
>> Anyone want to buy a V8 steam engine?
>> 
>> Mark.
> 
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