Well.. everyone has their experiences, some good some bad. I elected NOT to have GM put on my stage 2 kit (As when i called, they told me they didnt put on aftermarket parts, mind you it was a GM STAGE 2 KIT!!!)... anyway so i rent a pulley puller from autozone... the largest one they had couldnt grab the back of the pulley, just the front... So after 3 hours of pulling, heating, and picking up hot metal on accident (i have blisters)... so after bending the hell out of my stock pulley, we had to wait till the next day to get it pressed off. If you have any chance at all to get your pulley pressed off, do so.. its worth the 20 bucks. So the next day we go to get the pulley taken off (I have to leave for orlando in a few hours)... and they guy tells me its going to take an hour.. i didnt have the time, and after implementing how important it was to get it done now (i offered 100, youll know why later), he got it done in 20... so thinkiing everythings ok, we put the s/c back on the engine, and change the belt....

So when i stop at autozone to return the puller, i come out and my car is SCREECING and SLAPPING... appearantly when the belt was put on, it was placed over the a/c pulleys lip, and it litterally seperated a rib from my belt... Luckily the guy who put it on my car is a very good man, and drove out of his way from work and came and fixed my car.. So far everything is good... Werewolf SS Gave me a bad ass wtf tune, so if your in FL talk to him...

This is for anyone who thought NOTHING could go wrong...

BTW, why did i offer that guy 100? Imagine all that hell, multiplied by a pissed off g/f who wants to see shamu at seaworld

 

sorry to hear

 

This just shows the right tool for the job is worth its weight in gold. Random auto zone pulley puller ftl.

 

Agreed... i learned the hard way, Im the type thats wants something and wants it now when it comes to stuff like this... haha... This thread is to show people things can go wrong, so do it right.

 

Like fuel being thrown all in your face? Good times.
Glad to hear the tune's working for ya.
Did Samatha see Shamu?

 

Haha she sure did... She liked petting the stingrays, its kinda cool to feed them.. haha... Yea man that was wild, there was no screaming so i figured youd be alright.. haha

 

^^hey, your like right down the street from me (not literally) but yeah im in West Palm. I don't think i've seen you before.

 

Crazy, ive seen you on here but never bothered to see where your from.. I work in West palm beach on palm beach island... Im hatin this heat

 

yeah tell me about it. This freakin weather has mood swings worse than my girl. lol. Where on the island you work? i use to work at the palm beach club as a valet.

 

I work on worth ave for Margaritaville. lol at mood swings.. What part of palmbeach do you stay?

 

i use to live right by PBCC but i moved (not sure how familiar you are with the area but..) now i live near forest hill and jog.

 

Yeap Pbcc is a little closer to me than forest hill. Thats sweet though man... its cool findin cobalt buddies, my gf can only take so much of me blabbering about my car

 

yeah, me you and 04redline gotta meet up oe of these days.

 

yah we tried the pulley route at our shop.. then resorted to the press machine in the transmission room lol. It worked like MAGIC and didnt bend anything! =)

 

Deffinatly dude pm me and well talk more kano... alero i agree.. it wont be anything and we were about to weld the puller to the pulley... haha...

 

a press generally works the best, however a bearing splitter and puller works well too. using a 2 or 3 arm puller will just bend the pulley.

 

good advice, i realized the pulley bent but i didnt know anything could be done about it... I figured it bent either way.

 

I wish I would have known, I'd have done it for you at work. I just pressed off a stock pulley and installed a GM stage hub for another local guy.

 

Man that would have been awesome... Thanks for the offer anyway, very nice of you.

 

It happens...have to be careful. But the belt is still another 40 bucks.

 

so wait, am I reading this wrong?


You paid a **** load of money for stage 2 kit, but didnt have the dealer flash the tune?

So basically you payed 500 plus dollars for a pully, belt and injectors? OUCH!!!!!


Glad it all worked out for you though!!!

 

No actually i got everyting dirt cheap... 50 bucks for the entire stage 2 kit except injectors, which i paid 125 for... then 200 bucks for a good tune.... so that was 175 for the stage 2 kit and with the tune it came out to 375... it worked out very well.