Removing Engine Paint for New Paint

[Tom Wesenberg]

I've got to stop taking things apart. Every time I remove something I find another problem. Yesterday I removed the broken 2 piece aluminum pulley and found someone had forced the sleeve into place without lining up the notch for the key. It forced the key to cut a new notch and also put a crack in the sleeve. I saw where someone had done this same thing to an original pulley a few years ago, but on that cast iron it broke out a chuck of the sleeve.

They also deformed the key by pushing it up and to the side, so now the oil slinger can't be removed. I'll try to straighten the key tomorrow.