For those of you who changed their pulley I say congratulations! How the hell did you take the bolts off and keep the pulley from turning. The tensioner pulley is plastic, can't put much pressure on it with the pry bar up against the supercharger pulley with out wrecking it. Any suggestions!!!!! Beside taking the SC off.

 

If you leave the belt on then the pulley shouldn't spin when you try to un-screw the bolts. The stage 2 bolts can be a real bitch sometimes though, some people have heat them up, use vice grips to get them off, drill them out etc.

 

It turns, the belt and everything!

 

Strap Wrench and an extra set of hands if you don't want to remove the s/c

 

use a small screwdriver and wedge it between the bolts that are still on the pully. use it like a lever to keep it from turning. loosen all the bolts before removing any of them. if you position the screwdriver right the pully will stay still.

 

Put the car in 1st gear and start wrenching on the bolts. After a turn or so it will tighten up. Break um all loose and take it out of gear. Do the same to tighten them up.

 

Just yesterday I swapped the S2 bolts with Nate's bolts and I took a crow bar (yeah I know, excessive haha didn't have a prybar) and put it between the tensioner pulley and the SC pulley and then pulled towards me. I was able to do it by myself by putting the crowbar under my armpit and leaning a little towards the front of the car (not much pressure just enough to hold the sc pulley still) so it was pushing the tensioner pulley upward and towards the rear of the car and the sc downward and towards the front of the car (in terms of force, not actually pushing them lol). Worked well enough to get all bolts cracked no problem. After they were cracked, didn't need the crowbar.

PM me and I'll send you the steps USMCFieldMP sent me, they were great and had pictures.

 

Strap wrench is the best way , saves alot of abuse on the pulley .

 

Jesus!!! I bought a strap wrench, works great only I snapped the pulley bolt bit in 2. What the christ? Looks like there's no 2.9 in the future for me!!!

 

holy hell thats nuts.

 

Damn good thing I helped the mechanic install my S2 kit and slapped him when he picked up the lock-tite. My bolts are a breeze to take off.

 

Loc-tite! I think mine are friggin welded on.

 

What I ended up doing was removing the supercharger and putting a little bit of heat on the bolts to help free them up.

 

Yea, thats what I'm gonna end up doing, I figure I'll put a dual pass on at the same time.

 

I want a 2.9 but dunno yet

 

I am having the same problem with these bolts. I cant seem to get them off.

 

they used tons of lock-tite on my bolts and after trying everything to get them out i ended up pulling the supercharger out and drilling the bolts. it didnt take long and it was easy to do!

 

I have had my 2.9 sence way b4 thanksgiving. I couldnt get it off. the shop I took it to couldnt get it off. So now Im just gunna swap the whole blower

 

so you had to take the blower off? Anyone have a write up on how they got these bolts off?

 

remember, right tightie, leftie loseie

 

lol, these things are stuck on and it keeps moving.

 

i would just go through the trouble of taking the blower off, its not that hard and once you are done it will be worth it!

 

PM'ed with how-to

 

thanks for the pm, I am going to try that out tomorrow.

 

Littlegoose, wanna Pm me with that how to, too!!