Alternator pulley

kswieringa · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 3:48 pm

Does anyone know where to get the tool to remove the pulley? Has anyone made a substitute?

CATCRD · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 4:05 pm

I just used a 17mm hex bit socket on an impact wrench. I took the alternator off the engine and used the gun to rattle the pulley right off. Took more time to get the belt off.

geordi · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 5:41 pm

About the same for me... Except I made it harder on myself by first thinking it was a reverse-thread and breaking off a socket while making the thing TIGHTER to the alternator.

I wouldn't suggest that method.

Lefty-loosey, righty-tighty. And since the belt turns the same way as to tighten the pulley, you don't need to gorilla the pulley back on.

audiboy86 · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 7:03 pm

The only way to get it off it with and impact gun or you can hold the pulley with a pipe wrench and use a 17mm hex bit.

msilbernagel · **Posted:** Sun Jan 22, 2012 10:22 pm

The tool you want is Miller 8433A.. I'd picked one up on eBay when mine went out.

If you pay for shipping and promise to send it back - I can ship it inexpensively (USPS probably).

Mark

nursecosmo · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:36 am

geordi wrote:

And since the belt turns the same way as to tighten the pulley, you don't need to gorilla the pulley back on.

Oh man, let's not start that discussion again. (I agreed with you Geordi). :twisted:

painemann · **Joined:** Sat Dec 20, 2008 7:02 pm **Posts:** 607

Yeah I over tightened a new pulley and it didn't last long, Wast of $65!

Big Montana · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:38 am

I'm not trying to hijack, but is there any reason NOT to buy a new alternator from a place like Autozone? I looked one up on their site for our Jeep and it's $144 with a $66 core charge. Don't get me wrong, I've not done it yet, I was just thinking that I've got 105k miles on the alternator, and the pulley was around $50 right? Well now I can't find the part number for the pulley for moparpartsamerica. I have no idea how much it is.

Either way, are the autozone alternators and the like a problem?

secondechomatt · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 8:55 am

No, not really a problem, except you are going to be waiting a while to get one.

ibedonc · **Joined:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:40 pm **Posts:** 236

secondechomatt wrote:

No, not really a problem, except you are going to be waiting a while to get one.

yup I 2nd that

http://www.maniacelectricmotors.com/20allal113.html is a better place

and cheaper then autozone

geordi · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 12:10 pm

I don't know why you might have waited, unless it was a temporary thing. I replaced the entire alternator from Autozone for that price, its the one I'm driving on right now. It works perfectly and came with the correct pulley installed.

kswieringa · **Posted:** Mon Jan 23, 2012 7:40 pm

I ordered the pulley Sunday. I hope to have it by weeks end. I'll just use the 17 mm and the impact. @Mark, Thanks for the offer of the tool loan.

ibedonc · **Joined:** Mon Feb 12, 2007 2:40 pm **Posts:** 236

geordi wrote:

I don't know why you might have waited, unless it was a temporary thing. I replaced the entire alternator from Autozone for that price, its the one I'm driving on right now. It works perfectly and came with the correct pulley installed.

My Pulley/alt from Autozone failed 2 days after install, it started making noise

and when I went to get a replacement and they did not have any and even after 2 weeks I went looking for another source . of course I did not have my core anymore

geordi · **Posted:** Tue Jan 24, 2012 3:33 pm

I remember you posting about that - that sucked. I had gotten mine after only a 2 day shipping wait, b/c I was buying it in the middle of Virginia, and the closest warehouse with one was in west virginia.

Obviously the success depends on getting a good unit, the sad thing is that ALL of them are rebuilt units, pretty much no matter where you get it from. The dealer buys them from the same Mexico-built supplier that sends them to the parts stores. Obviously you got one that had a bad set of bearings in it, I got lucky and had good bearings.

I will say that even on a common design like a 60's-to-early-00's Ford V8 where they have put that 302ci engine in just about everything that moved... I personally have replaced about 4 of those right after buying them on my own vehicles. Its a crap shoot, which is why they offer that lifetime replacement warranty. If the thing lasts a week, it will probably last a month. If it lasts that month... It will go the distance, at least on the bearings.

Maybe I'm just lazy, but I usually don't get the core back to the shop for about a week or two. Its not any conscious choice to wait-and-see... But it just kinda happens that way I guess.

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