After many long hours of working, and reading and then re-reading following some more reading of the completely worthless installation manuall i finally got my procharger (d1sc) on, the car started up and ran fine cold, i never got into operating range because the belt keeps walking off the crank pully about 1/2 an inch, then it stops, of course every time i straighten out the belt, right after i start it up again it walks again.....so i shut her down. What could be the cause of this, is the belt too tight, too loose, is somthing wrong with the crank pully ? Im sure this has happend to lots of people, what should i do ?

Thanx guys, i cant wait to burn rubber hehehehehehehe : )

 

Check pulley alignment that could be your problem.

 

yes check pulley alignment especially the crank pulley and check it running for wobble too

 

How do i measure if the crank pully is aligned correctly ? will i need to shimm up with washers if is its not aligned right ?

 

Which belt system do you have??? 8 or 12 rib??

I personally had to put a thin stainless steel washer(.030") on the top bracket mounting bolt (between the backside of the bracket and the long spacer)... actually slightly cocking the bracket...my belt was walking off the front of the pulley toward the radiator...

over 2000 miles now with no problems...and the shim is still there...

later
larry

 

I have the 12 rib setup, i have a shiv load of washers of diffrent thicknesses, i dont know what those thicknesses are but ill give em a shot do i need to do this on all bolts or just the uppermost one maniacc ? Anybody else have some expirence with this ?

 

I only shimmed the one bolt. first i used a .060" washer and it caused the belt to walk toward the engine...so that's when i put the .030" washer in..and waaalaaa...it worked...Willlie did this first to stop his belt walk...

i cut the washer so it was like a u-shape, so i could slip it over the bolt without removing it...

later
larry