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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 01:32 PM
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My power steering pulley shaft snapped in HALF.... and shot the pulley out forward..
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 01:34 PM
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First Ive heard of it.
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 02:28 PM
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my power steering pulley is bent.
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 02:29 PM
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Originally Posted by @nthony
my power steering pulley is bent.
My pulley is bent now too.
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 02:33 PM
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mine makes noises
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 06:00 PM
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A bolt that holds the pump on stripped the bracket out on mine and caused it to go sideways, trashed the belt, and cut a coolant hose.
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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 06:12 PM
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I once broke two water pump shafts back to back on a Gen 1 350. I paid a lot closer attention when I put it back together the second time, and found a bent pulley. After replacing the pulley, I never had any more troubles with it.

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Old Aug 7, 2006 | 07:02 PM
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Well one of my spark plugs just popped off still attached to the wire. Try that on for size, lol
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its happened to me before.. i was doing donuts on some old crappy nittos and the shaft snapped in half and power steering fluid went everywhere and the belt popped off all frayed and stuff so i jsut got a new pump and pulley and belt.. works fine now.
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Had a buddy in a 2000 Z28 do it as well as my brother in his 98 SS... both doing cookies, both snapped out of the pump... woo go GM
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had it happen on an old work truck years ago broke the fan and shroud i keep on driving till i got it back to the farm i worked at i was to embarrassed to stop it was a real piece of junk, funny thing about it my boss sold it 2or3 months later the guy who bought it spent 2 years restoring it and won several trunk shows with it
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Originally Posted by JustaStockHawk
Had a buddy in a 2000 Z28 do it as well as my brother in his 98 SS... both doing cookies, both snapped out of the pump... woo go GM
Whats a cookie?
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How the hell does the pully shaft snap.. or bend? I have seen some ****, but not that..
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Old Aug 9, 2006 | 01:01 PM
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Never, but I snapped my tb cable on launch at the track, no one had heard of that happening oh well its fixed now.
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