I'm in the process of installing polished pulleys and cleaning up my accessory brackets/etc. I was planning on having my stock setup powder coated but ran into a snag. The fella at the PC shop told me I had to disassemble the belt tensioner. I've read that opening up the spring-loaded tensioner might be bad for my health.

Has anyone had their acc/BT PC'd? If so did you have to disassemble the tensioner?. Or does someone know a place that will disassmeble it for me or even polish it?

I do not want an aftermarket setup, so please reply only about the stock setup. Thank you.

Eric

 

Not really sure on the PC, but I did polish my tensioner assy. I just popped off the pulley and polished it on the car! They very bottom of it is not polished well, but you can't see that anyway!

** Not a good pic, but you can see it shining **

 

Nice looking engine bay. I didn't have enough talent to polish the flat plenum, so I doubt I could do the round tensioner. How did you polish it?

 

3 1/4" sewn cotton buffing wheel on an air operated die grinder. Used Formax black majic rouge, and it took about 30 minutes!

 

I pulled mine off the bracket when i got mine coated. what you could do is get a new one, and then paint it to match unless you get chrome, then you'd have to polish it.

 

I finally just unbolted that scary center bolt and removed it from the bracket. I'm going to take the brackets to be powder coated "near-chrome". I liked the fellas polished tensioner so much, I did mine that way. With my rig, the PC intake manifold and polished TPI stuff look pretty good together. So I'm gonna chance it that lightening can strike twice (different powder coaters).

Thanks for the help guys. I'll post up when this project is over.
Eric

 

I had my brackets and accesories bead blasted and then I painted them with aluminum color engine paint. I think it came out pretty nice.

 

That setup looks sweet. I love the factory look that paint of PC looks. I don't understand why they cant tape off the spring in the tensioner.

 

ooh nice engine 88blkiroc

 

I finally got my act together and finished this project. I took the center bolt out of the tensioner and removed it from the bracket. I polished it to the best of my ability and painted the center ring gloss black. I took the acc. brackets in for powder and they turned out really well. Unfortunately you'll never know by looking at my pics.

The pics are of my March polished underdrive pulleys, polished components, and the hole where the A/C once lived. I overpaid a bit for the A/C delete box but I didn't feel like haggling over it. I also have a Be Cool radiator in too, which pretty much obsecures most of it from the front.

 

Looks sweet.....good job !!

 

I didn't realize the tensioner was aluminum ... sweet.

BADNBLAK ... when you say you "popped off the pulley", I assume you're talking about the pulley under the tensioner, right? I would love to polish mine on the car instead of messing with taking it off.

 

I dont see why yall dont want to pull the whole pulley assembly. Didnt take me long to get mine off.... Wasnt hard at all....

 

I removed the single bolt holding the tensioner pulley on, then polished the whole tensioner and bracket together on the car.

I left mine on the car to polish, so that I could polish the mounting bracket and not have nice polished aluminum next to dull stuff.