Check Your Pulley's!

[ETM]

dunno just woke up at 4 and figured I would start early lol.

[spine]

crazy

[chippa]

Pretty sure Repco do a replacement metal idler pulley....about $37 from memory I think...need to replace mine as its sounding pretty rattley....could be wrong but worth sussing them out...

[Smoke them tyres]

that and the water pump.....same price

[civillian]

As an indicator I was quoted $550 for the Ross Metal Jacket harmonic balancer and $548 for the pulley kit which includes the tensioner etc.

Does anyone know if upgrading the harmonic balancer actually does much for the performance / stability of the XR6T motor?

[GR8XR6]

I will find out mate, considering Ross is sponsoring my new race car I think I may be able to get some kits at a good price.

Any news leigh?

[fordom]

Sorry to bring up an oldie, but definietly worth checking this out! I noticed a slight noise at idle last week, got pretty bad last night so I did a quick search and found the idler pulley and auto tensioners are known to fail in these cars.

I diagnosed my noise coming from the tensioner (idler pulley got done under warrenty 7000km's ago) so today I replaced the pulley with a metal 'nuline' one. I found the old bearing had heaps of play, and started to melt the housing due to bearing failure..would of let go at any time if I left it..

anyway, its whisper quiet again. My car is a bfmk2 f6 with 43000km's, completely standard.

$28 for the pulley, or about $95 complete with auto tensioner (found them cheaper genuine on ebay, but I needed one today). Ill see how the aftermarket one goes.

[arronm]

I changed our 5 falcons to the repco metal ones, all had average bearings.

[johno]

Idler assy, drive belt, BA 8A617A. $30.50

Pulley, tensioner, EF 6B217A. $22.49 (pulley only)

EF pulley is cheaper than BA/BF. My dealer uses the EF ones.

Edited 21/01/12 10:24 AM by johno

[bjcrown]

Anyone know the part number of the Dayco belt for BA MKII turbo auto?

Edited 21/01/12 10:53 PM by bjcrown