Fluid dampener pulley alignment question
Flip the alternator pulley over or use the 2nd groove of a double groove one and get a 1/2 spacer behind the water pump pulley. you may put more wear and tear on the pump bearing but pumps are cheap unless its a date coded water pump. This problem mirrors an industrial espionage story about capacitors: Some company made a newer cheaper capacitor dope but it was not good, the doping formula broke down fast and made them expand and blow the end seal and stop working. Well, the proprietary formula got stolen and everyone started to make these cheaper bad caps (badcaps.com). All of sudden all these devices were failing because the cheaper bad dope was being used by everyone now. Vibratech/Fluiddamper made their first design with no offset, and an overseas company copied it "warts and all" so they copied a bad design to start, then someone got wise and said 'wait, these don't really fit that well so lets scallop the front so the friggin stock pulleys line up', and then that design started to get repopped. So if there is a production date on that box or damper itself, tell us what it is. It must be 15 years old!
Flip the alternator pulley over or use the 2nd groove of a double groove one and get a 1/2 spacer behind the water pump pulley. you may put more wear and tear on the pump bearing but pumps are cheap unless its a date coded water pump. This problem mirrors an industrial espionage story about capacitors: Some company made a newer cheaper capacitor dope but it was not good, the doping formula broke down fast and made them expand and blow the end seal and stop working. Well, the proprietary formula got stolen and everyone started to make these cheaper bad caps (badcaps.com). All of sudden all these devices were failing because the cheaper bad dope was being used by everyone now. Vibratech/Fluiddamper made their first design with no offset, and an overseas company copied it "warts and all" so they copied a bad design to start, then someone got wise and said 'wait, these don't really fit that well so lets scallop the front so the friggin stock pulleys line up', and then that design started to get repopped. So if there is a production date on that box or damper itself, tell us what it is. It must be 15 years old!
