Has anyone ever used a regular pulley puller to remove the supercharger pulley and install a different one. Besides the one that zzp makes. I dont really feel like spending 100 bucks on that. If you guys have where did you get it and how much did it run you? Do you think a regular alternator pulley puller would work from like autozone or pepboys.

 

i tryed using a "professional" pulley remover from cornwell and lets say even with an impact it wasnt pulling that pulley off. i would say a shop press would be easier

idea! walk into pepboys with your supercharger in hand and walk up to the shop press on display and say "your testing it" and then leave

 

Yea that would be funny. So you didnt have any luck with a manual pulley puller. anyone else have any input.

 

Sometimes a shop press isnt enough. In my case, it didnt budge, you could actually see the pulley starting to bend. Maybe our press isnt that strong. The impact and traditional puller didnt work either. We had to use this old school puller that a guy had in the shop...hit with a hammer as we pumped it with the air gun...once it moved a little I took it to the press that got it off. It was a lot of work...Maybe mine was just pushed on a little much from the factory.

 

did you guys try heating it up a little before you pulled it off.

 

i got tired of trying to get it off and just brought it to a dealer. $50 bucks later the old pully was off and new hub was on.

 

We didnt try heat to get if off...but once it was off, we stuck the blower in the freezer and put the new hub in the hot tank for a couple hours...Then I used a power steering pulley press and it when on so easy...no struggle at all.

 

huh, thats interesting. Im not trying to do it right now just getting input for the future. Come spring when it gets a little nicer out I will be doing it.

 

i used a three jaw puller, a 3 ft long breaker bar.

got the stock pulley off, chewed, but off. also went flying across the yard when it popped.

 

well I guess once it is off I wont be reusing it so it doesnt matter.

 

I bought this set from Harbor Freight ($16.00)to remove the pulleys on both of my SS/SCs and used a GM power steering pulley installer (threads into the shaft) to install the new one.

 

did they work good?

 

thats what i used too.

 

they did the job then huh?

 

gm wants to charge me $750 for install of same as stage 2 parts and their stage 2 ecu tune? sound right?? dont really know??

 

is that including the stage kit?

 

no i will supply the aftermarket parts thts jus labor and pcm reprogramming

 

That price is rediculous, your getting raped. it should be more like 150-250 depending how familiar they are with the cobalt. First time I took mine to the dealer for an oil change it took them almost two hours, lets just say I got that for free. I did the oil change today and it took maybe 25 mins.

 

yeah, and my stock pulley was undamaged. and i didnt even buy it. i rented it at pepboys. twice (i did a fellow members pulley swap too.. also w/o damaging the stock pulley)

 

Mine damaged the pulley.....

 

Yeah dude you can go to Autozone they have a three jaw puller that'll take that off. Or Napa too, they make you do a deposit incase you don't bring it back but they refund your money when you bring it back .