Thread: Looking at a car and saw this...need some expertise.
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Old Sep 27, 2016 | 04:43 PM
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Default Re: Looking at a car and saw this...need some expertise.
Originally Posted by chuK_138
Might be the only who's experienced it to look, but I thought I saw oil flung on the rubber boot by the SC pulley. I would suggest wiping it off and checking the smell of it. If it's putrid smelling, the SC clutch is leaking from behind and will need a new blower.....been there, done that. Hopefully it is just belt dust, but there's a lot of it there.
I do not think that oil blow by from the SC necessarily means a new or recon blower. If the rotor bearings had failed then the rotors may have touched but if the oil seal(s) have failed anywhere then replacing the bearings fitted with the correct seals would cure the problem. The rotors and gears are in separate chambers, separated by a wall with bearings in it. The gear chamber will see varying air pressure due to blow by, this would be evened out to some degree by the hole in the pulley shaft.
That is my take on it anyway.
 
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