Re: Any interest in reduction pulleys

[farna@xxxxxxx]

Sounds reasonable. I'm to used to thinking six cylinders. There's a big difference between the short shaft six water pump and the standard or long shaft, not as much difference in the V-8s! 

On August 1, 2005 Nick ALFANO wrote:

> Frank,
> 
> The spacer would go between the hub of the water pump
> and the back side of the pulley not between the pulley
> and the fan blade.  This would most like be a round
> collar with the center button in it so that we could
> have one water pump pulley that would fit all of the
> water pump lengths out there.  If I didn't make it
> this way, I would have to make at least three
> different water pump pulleys to match up to the other
> pulleys.  That is a problem today with all the
> different pump shafts out there.  You get the wrong
> one and now your pulleys don't line up.  Then the
> average guy goes nuts trying to find the right pulley
> or the right water pump.
> 
> Right now I am just kicking around the idea.
> 
> Nick Alfano
> Alfano Performance
> 
> 
> Date: Sun, 31 Jul 2005 21:56:44 -0400
> From: farna@xxxxxxx
> Subject: Re: Any interest in reduction pulleys
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> 
> I'd like to see some nice looking pulleys, not sure
> about reducing
> though.
> I don't quite follow the spacer collar idea though. Do
> you mean just
> spacers to go between the fan clutch/fan and water
> pump hub? If that's
> the case you'd need to replace the water pump with a
> short shaft model if
> you have a long one now. That wouldn't be to big a
> deal if you include
> the application and part number for the required pump.
> Water pumps
> aren't expensive and do wear out anyway.


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