whhorn

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I removed the PS pump from my 94 FD, but since I live in the south and my wife likes to ride with me on occasion(do this if you don't already, it makes things easier) I wanted to keep the A/C. My car has the stacked eshaft pulley, with a dedicated front belt/pulley for PS/AC.

The issue is that with the smooth idler after you remove the PS there is no way to properly tension the A/C belt. I did not want to force on a belt with no adjustment that was not a good fit, so wanted a vdrive pulley to go in place of the stock smooth one to go across the top with the belt.

I searched around some and saw some suggestions, but nothing that really looked like a good solution. I've been working with a local alternator shop(Gene's Alternator in Greenville SC) that has been helping me with machining and some other things, and asked them to look at it since they spend a lot of time with random pulleys.

Quickly they resolved this, to a direct fit pulley from a tensioner off of a GM(Yukon maybe?) that fits precisely and will allow me to tension a shorter belt for the AC only. Pics below, I will update once I have fitted to the car and gotten the correct shorter belt.

Will

DaleClark

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Nice job! You might be able to cut some of the excess aluminum from the PS mount on that bracket to save a little weight .

So you just get that tensioner, pull the pulley off, and bolt it on?

Dale

whhorn

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Thanks Dale!

I can eat 10 less wings on Fridays too and still have somewhere to relo something to later jk, I fully support weight reduction

Yep, fits right on there, although they had done it when I got back by to them. I pulled it apart, looks like the GM pulley needs a washer behind it to get the offset right, the bearing is a little farther in than our stock one.