Pulley blew up

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BSOD2600
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Pulley blew up

Post by BSOD2600 »

On my trip back to school last week, at one point I smelled burning rubber. Pulled over, checked the belts, etc and everything seemed fine. Nothing smelled burning. Odd.

Fast forward to today. Noticed a slight burning smell again. Once I had parked, I checked the belts. To my dismay, I found the belt that drives the AC was completely shredded and mostly missing. Upon further inspection, the pulley tensioner was completely broken. The pulley itself must've blown out the bearings since it doesn't even sit on the screw now.

Ordered myself up a new pulley assembly and belt from subaruparts.com for ~$80 (dealer wanted $120 and special order). Hopefully will be here in a week. Yes, I realize many of you die-hards don't have AC anymore. I find it handy for defrosting the windows and coolin' down in the "hot" Seattle summer air :P.

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Post by IronMonkeyL255 »

I know what you mean about the a/c. I would already have gotten rid of mine if I didn't live in the south.
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BSOD2600
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Post by BSOD2600 »

Finally replaced it this afternoon in lovely 29F weather.

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It ate a hole into the plastic cover....
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Post by dzx »

I wish it was 29 degrees here...
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Post by Saskatoon Subaru »

dzx wrote:I wish it was 29 degrees here...

yea so do i, cause here the temp is -18F



-28C


so 29 degrees, shit thats summer weather.
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