just fitted the canopy to truck 1 and the mrs likes it so its all cool

Off work next week and all the parts have arrived for a proper 100000 mile service, all the belts, tensioners, coolant, oil, all filters and water pump which is squeaking merrily!

Mines due a massive service and overhaul in the next couple of months , it'll probably be cheaper to put my wheels on a new truck 🙁

ha ha i have thought about that mate but where would the fun in that be!

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ha ha i have thought about that mate but where would the fun in that be!

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Off work next week and all the parts have arrived for a proper 100000 mile service, all the belts, tensioners, coolant, oil, all filters and water pump which is squeaking merrily!

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truck 2 is on 137K now paul

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ha ha i have thought about that mate but where would the fun in that be!

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plus if your missus saw you buying another truck you'd be on the receiving end ... lol

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truck 2 is on 137K now paul

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well it was a long day sold the car cleanned the decking

then serviced the truck

found the balance belt snapped in there too, the pulley looks like it had started to perish in the center layer they dont last long

you were lucky with the belt . how long has the pulley been on?

also what is the new car?

i was lucky, pulley is 4-5 years old
the new car is the Agila

think that age for the pulley is about right ... my original one went when the truck was 5 years old ..... admittedly could do with being changed probably but when it had the alternator replaced i got them to check it out and they said it was fine ... but is due a cambelt change soon ( about 4-5000 miles time )

mine had started to crack a little in the laminated section, I will change them with the cambelt from now on I did think about not replacing it but for the sake of £80 I thought better of it.

I need @alex200 to weld one up me thinks

I'm guessing there made that way for reasons other than to get us moaning about delamination - probably to stop shocks being transmitted from the ancillaries through the crankshaft - really want to risk that?

hum probably fook all the seals up if it was solid

Wasn't there a solid one available for a while about 5/6 ( maybe 8/9 years ago ) years ago on Ebay

em not sure mate

vaguely remember it being mentioned on the other site....

i dont remember that I remeber someone welding one up

maybe thats what I'm thinking about ... I just remember a company selling them on the bay ... think the company was AZparts or something siimiliar


OR

I'm going completely batty with sunstroke!

ha ha maybe mate i have bad memory now days

I remember seeing solid pulleys for sale on eBay , I assumed the rubber bit in the pulley was a vibration damper because they are not balanced, can't see why one couldn't be machined from billet alloy as one piece

they are balanced rob that is what the holes are drilled into the rim for

The outer tin bit isn't and any component running off them could cause vibration , billet alloy could also be balanced