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Pulleys came in today...now I just need to find time to install them...
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MarchMadnessisMe
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so u r installin em urself?
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MarchMadnessisMe
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installed yet?
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MutantCheese
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no i havent had the time to install them yet as i will need some assistance from someone with a shop. if i get desperate ill just do it at work in our shop. we have air tools but no lift and i really would rather not have to crawl around under the car...lol
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MarchMadnessisMe
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yea if i get em thats gonna be the problem for me no shop and no air tools
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if you need a crawler, i'm your man. My parents' house is on piers but the piers are on a concrete slab, so anytime you needed to do anything under the house, we had a mechanic's creeper that you could use to get anywhere as long as you knew the layout of the plumbing and the gas lines like the back of your hand.
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MutantCheese
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Oh so that's how it is in your family 
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MarchMadnessisMe
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lmao thats cold shane
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cold blooded son
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southerndragoncivic
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did i miss something? or do i even want to know?
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MarchMadnessisMe
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u prob dnt wanna think about it too much
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MutantCheese
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If all goes as planned, I will have these pulleys installed for the April 20th meet. Jeff is helping at his shop next Saturday.
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MarchMadnessisMe
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sweeeeet i cant wait to see em and i want an update on how they feel
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NST pulleys are installed. DIY and pics to come. the installtion took just under 2 hours which included grinding my stiffy bracket down. a big thanks goes out to Jeff for assistance and the use of his shop lift. also thanks to my neighbor Jamey the honda tech for loaning me the crank pulley tool. without the lift and pulley tool the install would have been nearly impossible.
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MutantCheese
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Photos as promised:
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that crank pully bolt is a pain in the ..... but other than that it wasnt a bad install at all. glad i could help. |
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MutantCheese
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I know it. I wish that we had a picture of us pulling and pushing in unison on those 2 breaker bars...
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MutantCheese wrote:
I know it. I wish that we had a picture of us pulling and pushing in unison on those 2 breaker bars...
2 breaker bars - damn!! (any broken knuckles??)
Good pics / diy!!! 
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MutantCheese
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Best advice...Get a lift and the Honda crank pulley tool. It's doable on jack stands, but me and jeff were both cranking on the breaker bar and crank pulley breaker bar and had to really put our back into it to break that bad boy.
On the alternator pulley, if you have a air ratchet, I really don't think that you need to remove the alternator. We got the pulley off without much effort at all. The bottom two bolts are PITA to get to.
The upper pulley is cake, but I had to grind down my Stiffy bracket. Oh and don't use the little black washer/cap looking thing under the stock idler pulley, you don't need it with the NST. You can see it installed there in one of my pics, but we removed after realizing that the pulley won't turn with it on.
All in all it took just under 2 hours to install them. I'll rate this a 6 on a 1-10 difficulty scale because of the tools and lift needed to effectively do the job.
Oh, and the butt dyno gives it a few ponies, but the big difference is better throttle response at low RPM and butter mid range response too. I actually think that my car idles smoother as well. Overall worth the 240 smacks. that NST pulley looks sexy sitting up at the top too. 
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I can't remember if the K20 coughs when the a/c compressor comes on, but if it does did it smooth out post-install?
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