Hey fellas, We are putting my brother's 292 back together and we can't get the harmonic balancer and water pump pulley to line up. The alternator and balancer line up, but the water pump pulley is about half a pulley off. Anyone have any ideas? I tried uploading pics but they are too big. Thanks!
If u changed the water pump to a new rebuilt one, the rebuilder may have missed the mark as to how far the fan hub got pressed on. If too far you should be able to shim the pulley out the amount you need.
Water pump is whatever came on it. He never changed it. That doesn't mean a previous owner hasn't changed it. The pulley sticks out further than the balancer. I don't think he has any other pulleys around. Also, he just told me that he has pulled the balancer to paint it. It couldn't be pushed too far in could it? Pretty sure that's not possible
Thanks for the help guys. We were finally able to figure it out. He made a gasket out of his "gasket material" and trimmed it down to where nobody could see it. He finally told me there was a gasket in between. I took it out and what do ya know. Fixed. Thanks again!
For those that are interested, this is what that 292 is going into. My brother has been building this thing for a long while now and doesn't want to join the HAMB for some stupid reason. Oh well, his loss. Let me know what you guys think of the truck.
You mentioned in your first post that you were off by about a half of a pulley, how did a gasket cure that much misalignment? It sounds like you were off by about a 1/4''.
The gasket material he had was pretty thick. Plus silicone on either side. It pushed it out there pretty far. 1/4 inch might have been it. It looked "about" half a pulley.
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