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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #75 on: July 02, 2018, 05:31:42 AM »
Excellent mod, I did this on my silver car because of how bad the water pump slipped at higher RPMs, without the air-pump.
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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #76 on: July 03, 2018, 11:46:25 AM »
Yea, I did the same thing when first turbo-swapping the 'vert. For the most part it works, but it is a bit sensitive to the belt selection and how close in diameter they are/how they wear. Going with an e-Fan and not driving it off the end of the water pump should help a bit.

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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #77 on: August 05, 2018, 09:29:23 PM »
Last night, i was coming home from Lansing area and power steering felt like it went out.  I thought that i lost enough fluid from it leaking to cuase it to not work properly.  Well I investigated it today and this is what i saw.
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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #78 on: August 05, 2018, 09:31:55 PM »
I was due to give Bella an oil change anyways.  I also had an extra pulley in my cabinet that i grabbed and installed.  Here is close up of the pulley and with the new one installed.
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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #79 on: August 06, 2018, 05:32:26 AM »
Woah, I've never seen that before, yeah that would do it. Glad you got it fixed, you've been having some bad luck lately.
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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #80 on: August 06, 2018, 09:08:28 AM »
Wow, that's definitely an unusual failure mode!

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Re: Bella - The 88 Project Vert
« Reply #81 on: August 06, 2018, 09:31:31 AM »
Oh yes, luck has not seem to have been on my side lately.  I am hoping things improve here soon.  It was truly an odd failure to get.  Luckily i keep old belts that were in good condition and have the extra pulley laying around.
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