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Old 03-08-2017, 06:16 PM
Zulfiqar Zulfiqar is offline
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Originally Posted by ngarover View Post
Was driving and suddenly lost power steering, all warning lights popped on etc. figured the serp belt had broke. Not the case, the pulley on the alternator is flopping around. I'll have to take a closer looks later to see how it failed exactly and will take a picture of it.
my guess is that the pulley would be void of a woodruff key, thats the safety feature to save massive destruction should the alternator lock up internally.
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