My car went down this weekend because of a bad pulley. I heard a squeal and decided to check everything out and the crank pulley had alot of play in it. You could move it about an 1/8 of an inch back and forth. Lucky I caught it before it came off going down the road. The pulleys are two part with a rubber pressed in. If the pulley comes off going down the road it can tear up alot of sh*t.

 

Whos pulley on yours ?

 

I'm really scared of getting a UDP now.[]

I think I'll pass...

 

ya...wtf? where did all this pulley crap come from. In almost two years on MF I've only heard of maybe one pulley failure

 

Just my .02 but if I were running a 12K racing motor the last thing on my mind would be running UDP's....Not to say I'd run a stock balancer either but the neglible gains of part designed for the shade tree bolt on enthusiast vs. someone running a hardcore race engine?

I'm not pointing the finger - that really sucks.

 

I just read the DTC for this error and it read as follows:

"User Error!"

I also shook my Magic 8 Ball and it agreed with the scan tool.

-Jeff

 

damn!!! dont know what else to say!!!

 

I'm alittle mad now, when I was doing research before I bought these I had only seen two threads of people that had problems with them failing and that was searching through years of past posts. Now all of a sudden people are coming out of the wood works with problems. I've had mine on for only about 2 months and they seem to be fine. But next time I put my car up for maintanence, I'll be sure to see if there is any play in the pulley.

 

Yea I just installed my pullies,and now it makes me want to reinstall the factory ones. I dont want to be stranded on the side of the road, or my wife! Man that would put a screaching hault to any future mods for the car if it happened with her behind the wheel!!!

 

the inner/outer hubs of the pulley were out of alignment by @ 1/2 inch. We had the pulley tested and it was enough out of balance that it could be blamed for the oil pump failure, which at 7k rpm on a road course doesn't give you much time to shut it down and save it.

As I said, this was a Steeda SFI rated pulley/balancer, which came of his previous motor w/ only 24k on it.

I'm hardly saying it's going to happen to everybody. There are a number of isolated incidents amongst who knows how many pullies out there. All I am saying is that 8hp probably isn't worth a 5-8k risk to replace a stock motor, let alone a race one.