Don't take this the wrong way but most of your responses are soooo long I just skimmed or skipped them. I will go back and re read looking for questions.




OK.................


When I tried to remove one of the pulley allen bolts I had the pulley in my hand and "removed" it with a 3/8'' hand ratched without excessive force and I though I "broke" the bolt loose like usual...............I didn't know it actually "broke" until the front half came out of the pulley and I noticed it was sheared in half. I also didn't know that the pulley supposedly is super complex and has 28 parts until reading this thread.

As far as the crank pulleys sticking out too far and causing wear on the front edge that doesn't/didn't happen because the other pulleys are pulling the belt back where it's supposed to be and this causes the belt to eventually jump back into alignment. When it's back into "alignment" the belt is now hanging one rib off of the back of the crank pulley(happened to me once and I just put it back on the crank again) until it eventually cuts the rear rib off and should continue doing so until it destroys the belt completely.


I installed my newly cut down LET 185 pulley and everything seems to be in order and aligned now except the WP pulley where the belt is sticking off the back edge ever so slightly.................but that's due to the fact that I have the wrong pulley(LET sent me one for a v8 car) on my 6 right now.