crankshaft pulley?

[gayle]

ok,stupid question here but i'm not used to engines with 3 pulley wheels.the pulley wheel at the very bottom,nearest to the driver is the crankshaft pulley,right?in which case mine has appears to be very warped and possibly cracked.does anyone have a spare or can anyone tell me a part number?cant find a pic to point out the part i need and cant take a pic because theres car in the way.
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gayle x

[marcus]

Is it definitely warped or is it not sitting square on the crankshaft sprocket? It's held on by four 6mm hex socket bolts, and there's a little locating pin on the sprocket which mates with a hole on the pulley.

Having recently had to remove and refit mine, I found it is quite easy to think you've got it on straight and square, when in fact you haven't.

[gayle]

thanks for your reply.i didnt realise it was possible for them to sit squinty!i'll take it off tomorrow and have a look.can they squintify themselves?its always been a wee bit wobbly looking and rattled on idle but now its mega wobbly and rattles all the time.sounds like somethings about to fall off nowadays and no amount of stereo volume is fixing it.if i dont reply to this thread within the next couple of days,i've stripped the allan key bolts and decided to torch the car.....

[gayle]

ok,took it off there in the rain.the pulleys definately bent,god knows how.usefully,theres no part number on the one i took off.does anyone know a part number for a 1986 1.6 gt crankshaft pulley please?
thanks x

[Nate]

026105255 i think, looking at vagcat

[Nate]

pulley.jpg

[marcus]

Is VAGCAT working again? I just tried it and got a 'website not found' error, has the URL changed?

[Nate]

working for me. http://www.vagcat.com/ tried a ctrl+F5 incase it's cached from last time you tried?

[gayle]

Fab.thanks nate.vagcat still isnt working for me either.think i kill websites....

[marcus]

Not working for me either, am using Firefox and have cleared my cache, even tried (shudder) using IE and cleared the history on that too, just in case.

A whois lookup doesn't reveal any IP addresses either, which is strange.

Maybe you have the entire site cached? :)

[Mr Funk]

Works fine for me

[marcus]

If it works for you, what's the exact URL you see in your address bar?

I've found the IP address (84.45.121.174), but it hosts 54 different sites, so that doesn't get me any further.

[marcus]

Ok here's a thought.

VAGCAT is a Russian site, sitting on an IP address which may be being blocked by some ISPs because perhaps some of the other sites on that server aren't so good.

So, those people who can get to it, what ISP are you with?

And those people who can't get, it what ISP are you with?

I'm with BE (bethere.co.uk), and I can't get to it.

Obviously, if we end up with some people who can get to it using ISP A, and some who can't, then the ISP blocking argument fails.

[Nate]

talktalk and can sometimes get on fine.

[gayle]

£50 for a pulley wheel?ouch.replaced it and the awful rattling noise is still there.bugger.least i might not shred as many fanbelts though.next thing to change is the water pump i guess.how easy is it to do?
also,i'm with sky interweb,using firefox and vagcat doesnt work still....