08 July 2010

Centrifuge

Centrifuge installation has taken a couple of days so far. It's a fun project rummaging around the house looking for scrape material to use for brackets etc. The fabrication does take time.

The used Acura power steering pump that I bought with the new Dieselcraft OC-20 Centrifuge off of Craigslist came with a serpentine belt pulley.

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Attempts to remove the pulley proved futile. The nut stripped but would not come off the pulley. If you can't beat them join them. So I took a Ford pulley that had been laying around and drilled it out to clear the stripped bolt.

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Then with the help of some friends I welded the ford pulley to the Acura pulley.

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Thank You goes to Anthony and Frank for taking time away from working on their race cars to help me.

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