Dude, is this common or am i just a canidate for bad luck ? We were going to pick up a christmas present for my daughter and me and my wife heard something "clunk" from under the car. I asked her what it was she says a stick , lmaooo. a few seconds later i hear some clanging noise and the typical lights came on . Needless to say i made it to the shop and they fixed me up but it seems like i need the adjustment bracket that the idler pully bolts to. The bolt got messed up a little when the pulley came off. Man some kinda luck im having ! In the 4 months i have owned this car i have replace the plugs , struts and everything that that includes , a new axle , new battery , 2 new tires , a harmonic balancer , tie rods ,new clutch and now a idler pulley. And i thought i got a deal when i found a 5spd Se for 1800 , lmaoooo ! I guess you live and learn though. I could have a bad a$$ car by now if didnt have to replace something everytime i leave the driveway , lol ! Sorry just needed to vent a little !

 

Harmonic balancer? Didn't know these cars had one.

All those parts you mentioned are commonly replaced on a >10 year old car. Probably just means the previous owner didn't want to put any money into it.

 

Just going off what the recipt said , i probablly got screwed , lol remember i am the canidate for bad luck . But beleive me i will be checking into it. Man i install glass im by far no mechanic , lol !

 

http://www.autozone.com/autozone/cat...andName=Dorman


Guess i didnt get screwed they do have them !

 

I thought a harmonic balancer was a separate part, that's pressed onto the crankshaft, and the pulley then bolts to it. But it looks like a crankshaft pulley and harmonic balancer are one integral piece, so I guess it's correct to call that part a harmonic balancer. The FSM and the Haynes manual just call it the crankshaft pulley, so I thought we didn't have a harmonic balancer. Shows how much I know.

 

Lmao , like i said man im no mechanic but i know i spent d@mn near 200 plus labor for one , lol !

 

dont worry bud once all the normal notorious things are outta the way she'll be good for a long time...

 

hopefully everything is set now to pul out the driveway safely.

 

yeah i know tell me about it. I got a 96 thats damn near new under the hood , lol !

 

lol that happened to me once a long time ago but that was my fault. I got a new one for 50 bucks from courtesy nissan.

 

What shop did you bring it to?

 

happend to me also, also due to my own fault, but the pully bolt was also a little bent, just got a replacement from a wreckers, has been fine ever since.

 

I was in conroe , Tx when it happened .

 

I've had it happen once. When that bearing in the pulley starts to seize up it will spin the nut right off and then the pulley will come off.

Idler pulley and harmonic balancer (crank pulley) are two different parts though, I can't tell from your post if you had to replace the crank pulley in a separate incident or not.

 

I've had it happened recently, found the pulley and just got a new bolt from a local orger and all was good to go.

 

Yeah Neal, what happen was i kept hearing a whining from the pass side (prior to breaking). I looked but everything seemed to be good so i thought it wasnt the pulley. The shop replaced it with the new
one i bought from Autozone . I guess the bolt got screwed up from the previous whining. When i heard the whining , like i said i checked everything out but couldnt see nothing.
After he replaced the pulley the steering was back to normal but with the bolt and adjustment bracket being bad i went ahead and got one from a fellow orger. Just waiting on it to come in. Im pretty sure it should solve my lil problem. The nut on the adjustment bracket bolt wouldnt go on all the way due to being stripped (I am assuming from excessive whining).
I just cant believe i over looked something so small. Crazy thing is , the bearings stayed on the bolt but the pulley fell off. Never fount the pulley.I guess the internals were just shot.


Same thing here , i got one from VQPhantom ! Thank goodness he had one.