I was driving back from my girlfriends house when this happened. I was on a long straight road leading up to my apartment whenIi tried making a hard right turn at decently high rate of speed. When I was originally turning with one hand, but the steering wheel was super tight and hard to turn so I eased onto the brakes and turned hard with both arms. For a second there I was afraid it wouldn't turn and I would have to take extreme emergency measures. I didn't hear the initial break of the pulley or when exactly it gave way because I had my radio up loud. I only noticed once I tried to make the turn. I originaly thought just my power steering went out, but once I parked it and popped the hood I seen my belt totaly destroyed. After seeing the belt my eyes went straight to the water pump pulley and sure enough it was desintegrated. I do not know the extent of the damage other than the belt and pulley as I had no time to further investigate. I am not sharing this story to bash LET, but to worn others because this could have had disasterous results. Anyone who has an LET pulley of any size needs to ask for a new and improved water pump pulley ASAP and be careful until then.

 

Actually this is old news.
I hope everything else is all right. I am sure if it was more catistrophic even with the radio up you might have known.
Same thing happened to me. Get with Jerry, he will make it good on the pulley, You need the new style. You will have to get a new belt and there are much cheaper resorses than the dealer price of 105.00.
Summit racing has the best price. About 50 bucks
Didn't all your warning lights go on?
PS at least your happened near the garage, mine blew apart in the middle of no where, 104 Miles from home ad to the cost a near $500.00 tow!!!!!!

 

When you get the time you should look at all the enties on this subject.
Even with the problem and I say this hoping NOT to open a can of worms, I still think the 185mm is the way to go.
Mike

 

Actually the only light on was the battery light oddly enough.

 

Actually That is the only one that will come on right away...

 

Was it your replacement water pulley that failed or the original one? Wow am I glad I am running a supercharger pulley, this has happened to a lot of people. I can not believe everyone has been fortunate enough to escape any major damage from this.

 

IIRC, LET’s initial recall was applicable only to the 181mm pulleys.

www.crossfireforum.org/forum/showthread.php?t=27298

 

If your water pump took it like mine did the pump insert for the na is the same and I swapped the pump into the srt casting, took a bit of work but it was faster to do that and it was $100 cheaper.

Sorry to hear about the woopsie, everyone must take the time to check for the thicker pulley, should be about 1/8 in thick wall or more.

Woody.

 

They do make a thicker one for the 185. Its bullet proof. Call Jerry.

 

Far from Bullet Proof.
Now the Factory design is bullet proof!
Now I am hearing "boy I am glad I have a super charger pulley" Why? Now that the only problem with the LET system has been fixed the only differance
is you barely have over half the boost!of the 185mm
From what I have heard from you in the past was, that your still looking for more power.
Yes the truth is the only (RECALL) was on the 181mm pulley but Jerry will have no problem replacing the 185 water pump for you and then everything will be once again Honky Dory

 

It was the original pulley that came with the kit, not the "upgraded" pulley. I did contact Jerry and he said he has none in stock right now and is waiting on a new shipment.

 

less boost but we run faster times

 

Let me know how it goes, I hope everything on your car is okay. That really sucks that happened, hopefully you can get it back up and running soon.

 

I think you guys are all missing the bigger picture here!!! This sounds like a bogus story to me. I can not believe that Blue has a GIRLFRIEND!!! Forget this so called defective pulley and show me evidence of this alleged girlfriend~ Just Kidding buddy, sorry to hear about this! Good luck on getting it fixed, we all know Jerry will stand behind it. I am sure after I spank 240M3SRT at the track this weekend, he may just send you his as a loner. LOL

 

Listen, we have a helmet clause written into our contract for me referring to her as my girlfriend, OK! I wear the helmet with those cool tinted eye protectors like LT, and she agrees to let me hold her hand in private.

 

Blkfin, you need to come race me next season. We have the same mods except my is the SL55 intake and the 181mm pulley. We can do a heads up test.........ooops, you loose! (crap, I forgot about tha manifold thingie).

MikeR

 

That sounds like a pretty good deal to me!

 

You better watch out...I have a few things up my sleeve. I will get a baseline this weekend and we will go from there! I think that there may be a few SRT6's at the track on Saturday. I know 240 is ready to race!!!

 

Are the 181 and 185 water pump pulley's the same size? Nevermind, Jerry called and said they were not the same. I would been happy to send the one I have not put on my daughter's SRT.

 

Hope you guys have lots of fun. We want to see some real good numbers so no slackin off.


Blue, sorry about your pulley. LET's website lists the upgraded WP pulley with both the 185 and 181 kits. So it is just a matter of having them in stock. Hope it is soon for you. I think I will go do a drawing of mine and make a 'herky mother' spare. If you have one, you never need it. That's my story and I'm sticking to it!

MikeR