View Single Post
Old 03-04-2010, 10:25 PM   #8 (permalink)
Christ
Moderate your Moderation.
 
Join Date: Nov 2008
Location: Troy, Pa.
Posts: 8,919

Pasta - '96 Volkswagen Passat TDi
90 day: 45.22 mpg (US)
Thanks: 1,369
Thanked 430 Times in 353 Posts
If they don't, they're not too difficult to make if you have two of your OE pulley as spares.

You cut the center hub out of one, then cut the outer ring off another, making sure the two pieces are interference with each other if you try to put them together, and then you file/mill the interference section of each piece half way through it's thickness on opposing sides, so they mesh together to give proper alignment. Get yourself a protractor and mark degrees, set the gear at "0", bolt it together in a few evenly spaced places, and degree your OE cam to make sure you've installed the two pieces indexed correctly.

Any time you need to make an adjustment, you'll have to index the gear, unless you accurately marked it to begin with.
__________________
"¿ʞɐǝɹɟ ɐ ǝɹ,noʎ uǝɥʍ 'ʇı ʇ,usı 'ʎlǝuol s,ʇı"

  Reply With Quote