old_mate Member 767 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 23/06/12 12:47 PM Share Posted 23/06/12 12:47 PM (edited) Quick drive up to my folks place ended poorly tonight - temp warnings come up on the dash, temp guage well into the red, pop the bonnet to find water pump pulley missing. Belt somehow dropped into the remaining shaft but the whole pulley is gone.Spoke to a relo who is Service Manager at a dealer in Central Queensland who has head of this four times now.Warning signs about a week ago was a sqeaky belt which I fixed with belt conditioner (silicon spray basically) - obviously masking the real problem.Gotta say, I was spun out to see a whole pulley missing. Sucks I am about 2 and a half months out of warranty too.Anyone else been through/heard of this? Edited 23/06/12 12:49 PM by old_mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicxr6t05 Bronze Donating Members 2,216 Member For: 13y 1m 24d Gender: Male Posted 23/06/12 09:07 PM Share Posted 23/06/12 09:07 PM Yep iv had this happen on an fg with under 30k... At least its not too expensive to fix Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 24/06/12 12:04 AM Author Share Posted 24/06/12 12:04 AM (edited) Thanks for the info Luke.Sent from my Nexus S using Tapatalk 2 Edited 24/06/12 12:05 AM by old_mate Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bionicxr6t05 Bronze Donating Members 2,216 Member For: 13y 1m 24d Gender: Male Posted 24/06/12 03:29 AM Share Posted 24/06/12 03:29 AM No probs hit me up if u need a hand Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Evil XR6T Bronze Donating Members 138 Member For: 13y 4d Gender: Male Location: Townsville Posted 10/07/12 02:48 AM Share Posted 10/07/12 02:48 AM This happened to a mate of mine at work. He was a little more unlucky though. His resulted with the pully putting a good sized dent in the underside of his bonnet (you could see the big lump when he closed it) and then it got shot through his radiator. And his car wasnt even to 10000kms yet !!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
old_mate Member 767 Member For: 18y 7m 7d Gender: Male Location: Brisbane Posted 10/07/12 04:33 PM Author Share Posted 10/07/12 04:33 PM Ahhh warranty job!Sent from my GT-P7510 using Tapatalk 2 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbotrana Member 2,586 Member For: 21y 5m 21d Gender: Male Posted 21/07/12 08:03 AM Share Posted 21/07/12 08:03 AM Today I was investigating a squeek, took the belt off to check the pulleys and the water pump pulley is phucked(FG turbo). One thing that comes to mind is that the belt tensioner is a pretty strong unit on the FG. Its puts way more pressure on that plastic pulley than say EF/EL tensioners. So we never really had these failures on those models, its just that this plastic pully has a hard time with the FG tensioner.Anyway I am looking for an alluminium replacement as the plastic will just fail again. Duz anyone know who duz the ally ones. I have seen them. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
bjviper Member 11 Member For: 16y 4m 2d Gender: Male Location: Brisvegas Posted 13/08/12 12:32 PM Share Posted 13/08/12 12:32 PM Add another failure to the list. Found my pulley had come clean off the shaft and was sitting on at the bottom of the engine bay. Symptons were the same as old_mate plus a melted plastic/rubber smell from the engine bay over the past few days.Car is stock with 75000km on it, and unfortunately 5months out of warranty :( Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
turbotrana Member 2,586 Member For: 21y 5m 21d Gender: Male Posted 13/08/12 12:43 PM Share Posted 13/08/12 12:43 PM And if you are wondering what tools you need to take the pulley off with and put in back on see pic Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cizzink11 Member 352 Member For: 12y 1m 20d Gender: Male Posted 17/08/12 06:08 PM Share Posted 17/08/12 06:08 PM better check my pullys :o Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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