D16Z6 A/C tensioner pulley problem!
02-25-2007, 11:37 AM
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D16Z6 A/C tensioner pulley problem!
So this makes no sense to me. My brother's 93 del Sol Si was making this weird squealing sound at idle. After awhile we figured out the A/C tensioner pulley was missing some kind of spacer behind it, and it was grinding against the tensioner pulley bracket. So I look online and sure enough there is supposed to be a spacer (or "collar") between the bracket and the pulley, as seen in this pic, piece #17, part #38944-P01-000.
So my brother orders the part, comes back next weekend and we put it on. In the meantime he just took off the A/C belt so he could drive the car.
So I take the part and the rest of the pulley parts and start to assemble everything. The parts go over the #19 bolts in this order: collar, pulley, bearing cover, nut, as shown below from left to right:
Now the whole time I'm thinking wow that collar looks big. So anyway, when stacked together it looks like this:
So I install the parts on the car, but what is this? The pulley is wayyyy out of alignment from the crank pulley and the A/C compressor pulley, as you can see:
I am sure I had everything installed the right way. The pulley was on correctly (not backwards) because the #20 nut will only fit into one side of the center bearing on the pulley.
We ended up just sticking a couple of stainless steel washers between the pulley and the bracket, and it seems to work great.
Anybody had experience with this before? It seems like the part shown in the diagram does not work correctly at all on the D16Z6 engine. Would there be any potential problems with just a couple of washers on there?
So my brother orders the part, comes back next weekend and we put it on. In the meantime he just took off the A/C belt so he could drive the car.
So I take the part and the rest of the pulley parts and start to assemble everything. The parts go over the #19 bolts in this order: collar, pulley, bearing cover, nut, as shown below from left to right:
Now the whole time I'm thinking wow that collar looks big. So anyway, when stacked together it looks like this:
So I install the parts on the car, but what is this? The pulley is wayyyy out of alignment from the crank pulley and the A/C compressor pulley, as you can see:
I am sure I had everything installed the right way. The pulley was on correctly (not backwards) because the #20 nut will only fit into one side of the center bearing on the pulley.
We ended up just sticking a couple of stainless steel washers between the pulley and the bracket, and it seems to work great.
Anybody had experience with this before? It seems like the part shown in the diagram does not work correctly at all on the D16Z6 engine. Would there be any potential problems with just a couple of washers on there?
02-26-2007, 04:38 AM
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It would fit part way onto the side of the pulley where the nut was supposed to go, but if I tried to put the nut on the other side, the bearing cover plate would just flop around loosely.
I did try flipping the pulley around and putting it on with the spacer fitting into the bearing, and it still did not line up.
I did try flipping the pulley around and putting it on with the spacer fitting into the bearing, and it still did not line up.
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