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Old 09-05-17, 06:41 AM
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Pineapple Racing BT Idler Kit issue

Not sure if this is the best place to post this? but here goes. I have been chasing a fine mist of oil spraying onto the underside of my bonnet and around my turbo compressor for some time now. changing various pipes and gaskets to rule things out. Then I thought it was the front pulley oil seal but I am now pretty confident that is not the case. I was looking at the car last night with my dad and he asked what's that pulley do and was pointing the pineapple racing idler any had spotted the bearing look seal area looked wet. Sure enough I wiped around it and there has clearly been grease escaping from the seal. Whether this is definitely the culprit of my bonnet mist or not remains to be seen but it is in exact alignment with where the spray comes from. I did a quick search and found some older posts with people have leaking seals and failures. How worried should I be? The pulley has done only a few hundred miles and I don't think it has been over 6k rpm more than a couple of times when the car was previously dyno'd currently I have been running in at lower rpm and get this spray every time I go out. it is a tiny amount but none-the-less a spray which is very annoying and eventually it is likely the bearing will run dry and seize. Part of me hopes this is the answer as it has been driving me mad. But now I want to know if the pulley/bearing is destined to fail in which case I need to get on to Pineapple about getting a new pulley with a better bearing seal?

Thanks for any info.




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