Vortech Belt Snapped off - How to Replace quickly?
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Apparently those spacers in the way are very important as they prevent the blower from cracking the timing chain cover or head itself while in boost. It twists while boosting so those spacers keep it steady and dampen load on the timing chain cover itself.
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I know everyone has different levels of mechanical comfort, but don't let removing the blower assembly intimidate you.
1. Remove aftercooler from blower
2. Remove serpentine belt: use a 14mm box end wrench on the tensioner pulley.
3. Remove vtec solenoid: 3 allen head bolts.
4. Remove the two 8mm allen head bolts at the cylinder head.
5. Remove the lower bracket's 10mm nuts. There are two of them.
6. Remove the idler pulley bolt and spacer. Make sure you don't lose the back spacer from the idler pulley. It can drop when you remove the pulley.
7. Remove the 17mm? bolt holding the blower bracket to the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
8. Pull blower assembly from the block.
When re-assembling be mindful of the vtec solenoid rubber gaskets (you have two of them). I like to have one hand as a precaution. You bust it, you are dead in the water. It's easy to pinch and cut them on the bracket and cylinder head edges.
Hope this helps.
1. Remove aftercooler from blower
2. Remove serpentine belt: use a 14mm box end wrench on the tensioner pulley.
3. Remove vtec solenoid: 3 allen head bolts.
4. Remove the two 8mm allen head bolts at the cylinder head.
5. Remove the lower bracket's 10mm nuts. There are two of them.
6. Remove the idler pulley bolt and spacer. Make sure you don't lose the back spacer from the idler pulley. It can drop when you remove the pulley.
7. Remove the 17mm? bolt holding the blower bracket to the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
8. Pull blower assembly from the block.
When re-assembling be mindful of the vtec solenoid rubber gaskets (you have two of them). I like to have one hand as a precaution. You bust it, you are dead in the water. It's easy to pinch and cut them on the bracket and cylinder head edges.
Hope this helps.
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Leave belt off. Have fun na. All the superchargers have problems with belt snapping and slipping. The vortech and comptech kits r known for this. The sos and kraftswerks kits r superior but imo the kraftswerks is a little better because u get more hp for ur money. And aesthetically looks better imo.
all superchargers? yes. specifically vortech and comptech? no.remember, the only 2 carb legal kits are comptech and vortech. that's why people get them. you can still make decent power off of them, but not as efficiently as SOS or kw. but beware of kw since they've been having a lot of issues with their pulleys on their v2 kit.
I know everyone has different levels of mechanical comfort, but don't let removing the blower assembly intimidate you.
1. Remove aftercooler from blower
2. Remove serpentine belt: use a 14mm box end wrench on the tensioner pulley.
3. Remove vtec solenoid: 3 allen head bolts.
4. Remove the two 8mm allen head bolts at the cylinder head.
5. Remove the lower bracket's 10mm nuts. There are two of them.
6. Remove the idler pulley bolt and spacer. Make sure you don't lose the back spacer from the idler pulley. It can drop when you remove the pulley.
7. Remove the 17mm? bolt holding the blower bracket to the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
8. Pull blower assembly from the block.
When re-assembling be mindful of the vtec solenoid rubber gaskets (you have two of them). I like to have one hand as a precaution. You bust it, you are dead in the water. It's easy to pinch and cut them on the bracket and cylinder head edges.
Hope this helps.
1. Remove aftercooler from blower
2. Remove serpentine belt: use a 14mm box end wrench on the tensioner pulley.
3. Remove vtec solenoid: 3 allen head bolts.
4. Remove the two 8mm allen head bolts at the cylinder head.
5. Remove the lower bracket's 10mm nuts. There are two of them.
6. Remove the idler pulley bolt and spacer. Make sure you don't lose the back spacer from the idler pulley. It can drop when you remove the pulley.
7. Remove the 17mm? bolt holding the blower bracket to the exhaust side of the cylinder head.
8. Pull blower assembly from the block.
When re-assembling be mindful of the vtec solenoid rubber gaskets (you have two of them). I like to have one hand as a precaution. You bust it, you are dead in the water. It's easy to pinch and cut them on the bracket and cylinder head edges.
Hope this helps.
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all superchargers? yes. specifically vortech and comptech? no.remember, the only 2 carb legal kits are comptech and vortech. that's why people get them. you can still make decent power off of them, but not as efficiently as SOS or kw. but beware of kw since they've been having a lot of issues with their pulleys on their v2 kit.
haha im guessing you installed the kit yourself? i installed mine, but i don't remember it down to details like this since i've only done it once.
Upgraded blower trim.
Multiples pulleys.
Up-sized crank pulley.
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