Re: quattro-digest V4 #1719

[Ed Armstrong <earmstrong@CSC.NOAA.GOV>]

>Date: Tue, 03 Feb 1998 12:56:04 -0800
>From: Wolff <wolff_b@ix.netcom.com>
>Subject: Re: Cam belt idler
>
>Sachelle Babbar wrote:
>> 
>> How much does the idler cost? Thing is diagrams don't show it. I think
>> turbos have it, but n/a's don't. Do they fail often? How are they removed?
>> 
>
>N/A's certainly do have it. BTDT last week on an '86 4kq. The idler was
>about $35 from Carleson. You need to buy or make a special puller.
>Getting it off is not the hard part. Getting it on is. At least on a 4kq
>where you have very little room between bodywork and engine. I managed
>to get a narrow hardwood board to fit in a slot in the bodywork and
>hammered the pully home that way. Do not use the center bolt to pull the
>pulley home to the engine. I have heard this is a very bad thing to do. 
>Wolff



I had the opposite experience. Getting off (without a puller) was
difficult. I used a long punch and hammer to gradually work it out but it
was a very ackward angle to do this. Putting in was a snap. Place the idler
pulley in the freezer for a few hours and was able to fit it in the block
mostly by hand ...
   
	-- ed