Thread: Acceptable amount for the water pump pulley to be out of line???

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with it being 1/8" off, every time you wind it up a bit, it will kick the belt.

.....Thanks C9x, Tech, Pat & Matt, It's got a pulley on it that Big Al's supplied. Long story, but when he sent the motor it had a different water pump on it than what I supplied {a Weiand value $129 versus the $290 Victor Jr. that I supplied}. So I took off the Weiand, sent it back to him & he sent me the Victor Jr with the aluminum aftermarket pulley. When I called Al this morning he said to machine the pump not the spacers which doesn't make since to me. It seems as if it'd be a lot easier to machine the spacers. I'm going to try Pat's suggestions first {r/e press pump shaft in more} & then go from there.
C9X, if I space out the crankshaft pulley it will put the blower belt way to close to the pulley. It is already so close that I was wondering if it was ok....
Thanks again everyone! Bill