Bella - The 88 Project Vert

[murz]

Excellent mod, I did this on my silver car because of how bad the water pump slipped at higher RPMs, without the air-pump.

[toplessFC3Sman]

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.

[~Groll69~]

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.

[~Groll69~]

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.

[murz]

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.

[toplessFC3Sman]

Wow, that's definitely an unusual failure mode!

[~Groll69~]

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.