2000_Black_RT10
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Edit: Please note that LifeIsGood has bought a better tool for this as shown in one of his replies below.
I just wanted to share a compact pulley that I fabricated to avoid completely removing the pump and buying a new puller. Perhaps a vendor could manufacture something simple like this to ship with a pulley kit, that's the thought to share.... I bought an aluminum pulley and bracket set from JonB, very nice quality for the money, and a new belt from a Chrysler dealer.
I can be a bit of a loser thinking that I can make anything at times... usually wasting time.. but this one worked out ok. Diggin' into my steel scrap bin, decided to use a train track hold down thing that I must have picked up on a walkabout down the local train tracks... to use for material to make the compact puller.
I chopped it up..
I used the chop saw to cut 25 mm wide slots (must be accurately cut to 25 mm outer edge of slot to the other outer edge of slot) in it.
After cutting more slots between and cleaning it up with an angle grinder, I then used a file to make some grooves that are 29 mm wide (each groove is filed 2 mm deep), leaving 3 mm thick fingers, it's good steel, had to use cutting lube such as transmission fluid so the file would bite into the hard steel
Here's the finished compact puller. Using a 3/8-16 X 1 3/4 long bolt which threads into pump shaft, the idea is to thread the bolt into the shaft, and back the bolt out using a box end wrench which will push the puller and pull the pulley off. I grinded the top of the bolt head smooth because the bolt head is going to spin on the puller face.
Here's the compact puller attached, basically I threaded the bolt into the pulley shaft, put the box end wrench on it, slipped the puller on into the pulley groove and backed off the bolt off counterclockwise which pushed the pulley and pulled the pulley off. The slot was wide enough that the box end wrench can come off the head for each rotation. Leaving the belt on helped to stop the pulley from rotating.
That's it, the pulley is off!!!
If anything.. hope it's useful or worth a laugh at what I do in my garage at times...
Cheers,
Mike
PS.. should be PITA... but the motor mount removal Post was a typo being PIA... stickin' to a theme now...
Edit.. One last pic, it was a pretty quick install of the new bracket by moving the pump aside to get to the bracket bolts, no issues. Glad it's done!
I just wanted to share a compact pulley that I fabricated to avoid completely removing the pump and buying a new puller. Perhaps a vendor could manufacture something simple like this to ship with a pulley kit, that's the thought to share.... I bought an aluminum pulley and bracket set from JonB, very nice quality for the money, and a new belt from a Chrysler dealer.
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I can be a bit of a loser thinking that I can make anything at times... usually wasting time.. but this one worked out ok. Diggin' into my steel scrap bin, decided to use a train track hold down thing that I must have picked up on a walkabout down the local train tracks... to use for material to make the compact puller.
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I chopped it up..
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I used the chop saw to cut 25 mm wide slots (must be accurately cut to 25 mm outer edge of slot to the other outer edge of slot) in it.
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After cutting more slots between and cleaning it up with an angle grinder, I then used a file to make some grooves that are 29 mm wide (each groove is filed 2 mm deep), leaving 3 mm thick fingers, it's good steel, had to use cutting lube such as transmission fluid so the file would bite into the hard steel
You must be registered for see images
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Here's the finished compact puller. Using a 3/8-16 X 1 3/4 long bolt which threads into pump shaft, the idea is to thread the bolt into the shaft, and back the bolt out using a box end wrench which will push the puller and pull the pulley off. I grinded the top of the bolt head smooth because the bolt head is going to spin on the puller face.
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Here's the compact puller attached, basically I threaded the bolt into the pulley shaft, put the box end wrench on it, slipped the puller on into the pulley groove and backed off the bolt off counterclockwise which pushed the pulley and pulled the pulley off. The slot was wide enough that the box end wrench can come off the head for each rotation. Leaving the belt on helped to stop the pulley from rotating.
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That's it, the pulley is off!!!
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If anything.. hope it's useful or worth a laugh at what I do in my garage at times...
Cheers,
Mike
PS.. should be PITA... but the motor mount removal Post was a typo being PIA... stickin' to a theme now...
Edit.. One last pic, it was a pretty quick install of the new bracket by moving the pump aside to get to the bracket bolts, no issues. Glad it's done!
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