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Blake, your life would make a pretty good movie plot.
Posted by RayF (more from RayF) on Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:10:41
In Reply to: crankshaft pully spins freely, blake coco, Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:26:49
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Just find a screenwriter and tell it all, from the beginning.
Of course leave the Saab in, but in the movie it will be sure to have a happy ending, a used crank pulley alone will fix it, not the worst case scenario of overheating damage to the entire engine. Also in the movie, you and everyone else in the family will all get the dream jobs they have been wanting, the Saab will be a classic and worth big bucks and a dream to drive, etc.
Hope your version of it comes out just the same.
If car died it probably (?!maybe, at least) is that since the alternator wasn't spinning the battery lost charge, not that it got so hot that it wouldn't run any more. Both could be true tho.
The loose part of the pulley runs the alternator as well as the water pump.
The fix is no fun to do yourself, but possible. Get a new or good used crank pulley for your year (there are differences, don't know when, but later (late 89-90 on I think) have Hall sensor on the crank pulley, someone will tell you exactly).
Need a big socket, 1 3/16 or 1 1/16, 30 or 27mm, bigger is thru 1989 I think, cut about in half so it's short enough to fit in and loosen the crank bolt with engine in car.
Lots of stuff comes off first, and you're working up between engine and firewall, mostly from below. Often an oily mess and recommendation is to replace that end crank seal, and they say also the oil pump cover-to-block O-ring seal, at the same time. But if it ISN'T oily down there I wouldn't do that, somebody else already did.
Many people would turn this job over to a shop.
Good luck.
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Posts in this Thread:
- crankshaft pully spins freely, blake coco, Sun, 16 Sep 2007 14:26:49
- Blake, your life would make a pretty good movie plot., RayF, Mon, 17 Sep 2007 11:10:41 <-- Viewing This Message
- PO of my car did the same-overheated it 'till it died, nicknick , Sun, 16 Sep 2007 20:12:06
- Re: crankshaft pully spins freely, CMyles , Sun, 16 Sep 2007 15:03:15
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