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Apr 11, 2004 | 05:00 PM

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willwren

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Originally Posted by Rogue

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Originally Posted by willwren

Just to clear something up here, you don't need a gear puller or chain vice-grips to change the coupler, but you do have to remove the supercharger from the lower intake manifold. It'* about a 4-hour garage job.

We changed my snout without pulling the SC itself off. We had to remove the alternator to get to a few of the bolts but that was it. We were testing the effect of ceramic supercharger bearings at the time. This is a series ii of course, series 1 may be dif.

You cannot pull the nosedrive or gear housing off a Series I without removing the SC from the car.

Apr 11, 2004 | 05:01 PM

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Originally Posted by zimaad

OK, here'* a better description of the noise. When the car starts up the */C makes a noise that almost sounds like something is jumping a gear inside. When the car is in park and the gas is applied the noise is not noticeable. When the gas is let off and the car goes back to idle the */C seems to jerk and make a clunk noise as it comes down near idle. I'll try the tubing trick and see if I can hear a bad bearing.

It is very likely the coupler. Follow Pdad'* suggestion, and get back to us. If it were a bearing, you'd hear it all the time. The coupler will typically only make noise at idle.