ati balancer issue
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ati balancer issue long story short, got a ls swapped 240sx in a trade (6.0 iron block). Had an issue with the car throwing belts. Pulled the ati pulley off, and whenever I removed the crank bolt, the pulley came right off. It was not a press fit... I sent pulley to be rebuilt and also bought a new hub for it, and same thing. Not a press fit. My question is, has anyone ran into an issue like this? I measured the crank snout and it is alot smaller compared to a stock crank. I got close to 1.4675-1.4680 with a digital caliper. Has anyone had to have a custom hub made in order to deal with the clearance issue? I realy dont want to pull the crank to replace it... looking for opinions or options. Thanks
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Sounds like your crank was pre-fornicated by a PO.
Doesn't seem like hacking yet another thing on top of somebody already hacking something fairly critical is a particularly good strategy. 2 hacks don't make a "right". Instead, you just end up with a mess... for example, an expensive one-off "custom" hacked balancer that you can't use next month when (as these things always seems to work out) the crank has to be replaced ANYWAY for some reason you don't see coming right now.
Bite the bullet and set it right.
Of course not. Who would? Butt, here we are.
Doesn't seem like hacking yet another thing on top of somebody already hacking something fairly critical is a particularly good strategy. 2 hacks don't make a "right". Instead, you just end up with a mess... for example, an expensive one-off "custom" hacked balancer that you can't use next month when (as these things always seems to work out) the crank has to be replaced ANYWAY for some reason you don't see coming right now.
Bite the bullet and set it right.
I realy dont want to pull the crank to replace it
