I bought this from Summit Racing:
I think it should be an ok replacement. After I posted I went out to the garage and dropped the low pressure hose into a bucket and completely drained the fluid. I then ran more fluid through the system until it ran clear. I reconnected it all and filled the reservoir and then turned the wheel lock to lock a dozen or so times to bleed the system. I live in north
I am hoping that the old fluid was a different consistency of my PS fluid and it was not releasing the air bubbles from concentration – if that would be case than the fluid was filled with bubbles like a bottle of soda. Well, I am hoping anyway – I am new to this and just learning.
Of all the new pulleys I installed the PS pump is the only one that looks slightly out of alignment. I might try and shim it a little to get it perfectly plumb – but that’s a big project that I am not getting into today.
Not being familiar with the srpintine system but could the squel come from the belt?
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At this point I am certain its an alignment issue of the PS pulley
I need some help in aligning it. Sorry no pictures at the moment.
If I stand at the passengers side of car I can see that the PS pulley is not aligned – from this point of view the pulley needs to go back on the drivers side of pulley and basically stay where it is on the passengers side of pulley. I am not sure how to make this happen using washers. I will put a straight edge on it tonight and take some pictures and post again.
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I have no idea how much tension to put on the belt - I figured I would call MArch Performance this morning at 9am when they open.
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