What the heck are you doing up so early? Get back to bed!

What about for me? I have an 18mm bolt, versus a torx head. Same **** for me, too? The bearings are shot on my idler, and I think I can cheap this one out, and if I can, I shall.



-justin

Open..should be the same. Follow what Randman said above as to which way to try turning. Don't be afraid to try the other way in case it'* a reverse thread or regular thread.

Foote...It'* vacation...I gotta get up and enjoying. Only sleep through the first few hours of work..not vacation.

Justin, the LN3 pulley does appear to remove in much the same way as above without the need to remove the PS pump and TAM [Captian Obvious says so cause you don't have one]. But, I must warn you that I snapped the pulley and part of the tensioner arm off in an attempt to just remove the pulley. Oooops!

By looking at the backside, the threads appear to be reverse to both Bill and me but I did take a pic and will post it when I get home so you can take a look at it too.

Replacement of the pulleys is complete. The tensioner pulley was metal but the idler pulley continues to be a plastic one. They were just under $20 each when purchased at a local Delco distributor. I also replaced both belts and the T-stat while I was at it. What an easy job to do when the motor is on the floor but it would be substantially more time consuming if it were in the car. Like MOS says, make sure you have a big bag of curse words handy cause you'll need 'em.

Well, turning the bolt counter-clockwise removes tension. I'll look in my FSM and see what it says. I just found out the bearings were shot last night, so I haven't done my research yet.


-justin

Right. That'* why you would turn it clockwise to loosen. Reverse threads.

Here'* the pics:

Part numbers for pulleys. SC tensioner pulley on top, SC idler on bottom


Tensioner pulley removed


Idler pulley removed


Busted LN3 tensioner arm


Justin, I couldn't get a clear shot of the threads. it was either out of focus or you couldn't see the direction of the threads. Sorry.

*Sorry this is off-topic* But, did you bolt the 90 torque-axis mount to the ser2 L67? If you did, could you take some pics of the area around the harmonic balancer and waterpump pullies?

The 90 doesn't have a torque axis mount but there are threaded holes in the unibody for one. The 97 mount will bolt right up to the 90 body.

ohhh yeah i forgot.
Thanks.