Can someone peek through the inspection port for the crank while their car is running and see if their crank bolt oscillates in the same fashion, please. The pulley system itself doesn't look to be unbalanced. This has me worried but it's going to the dealer for warranty work soon and I'll through a couple bucks their way to torque it down.

 

SOMEbody will chime in on this before me probably but if not i'll do it tomorrow when i get back to NYC.

 

thanks, Bro.

 

Looks like the end of the bolt may have been bent a little when you broke it loose

 

That's what I suspected. Its holding fine but just scared the crap out of me when I 1st noticed

 

Replace it now. You have no idea how much trouble that can cause later on.

 

gonna go now and record it for you ned.

 

sorry for the bad lighting.

http://s479.photobucket.com/albums/r...t=MVI_6090.flv

 

sheet, yours is nice and balanced. Belt track is fine and nothing's squeaking.

I have aligators closer to the boat right now - pre-cat or j-pipe busted a weld last night...sounds like a 1984 datsun with a muffler rusted out near the front axle.

 

when they took mine off it was with a flamethrower. nothing squeaking except tensioner when AC is on. OMG I WANNA FN KILL MYSELF. gonna get it replaced this week. sorry about the weld. hope this helps bro.

 

I just noticed earlier that my crank pulley looks a bit off balanced. Its definitely on centered, and the crank pulley bolt is torqued down. The middle circle part looks balanced as it spins, but the outer diameter of the pulley looks like it has a ~1mm of wobble. Also, the bolt washer looks like it has a bit of a wobble too. Car drives perfectly fine though

 

Probably nothing, but in extreme cases the rubber in the balancer can wear, become hard, cause a wobble and then the outer part will separate.

 

^^^ Yup. Perfect time to pick up a stock size light weight pulley, ~$130 shipped

 

Which ones are ~130 shipped? The UR crank pulley looks to be ~200?

 

ralco UR knock off

 

^^^^ this

Meh, they've gone up a little bit: $143 shipped on Amazon.



There is a seller on ebay for $140 shipped or best offer, but they never answer the phone and they have some bad reviews:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Ralco-RZ-Cra...B_I1UA&vxp=mtr