Thread: can I shorten my blower pulley from 3 1/2" wide to 3" wide???

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I looked at the pics of the engine in your gallery---I'm talking about the starter mount on the blower
You can probably machine and narrow the idler pulley to make the belt track where you want but will have to be careful because of waterpump, etc

Thanks Pat & Jerry! hmmm, after looking it over I see that there is more involved than I first though! If I grind {or have machined as Pat mentioned} down the bottom pulley then I have to also have the spacer behind the idler pulley & spacer behind the top pulley machined. And there's no way the ideler or the top pulley spacer's could be ground {has to be machined}. What I'm going to try first is to move the brake line that's in the way & then take off the bolt that holds the alternator/water pump pulley/harmonic ballancer on to see if I can then get the bottom blower pulley on..... Also I can un-bolt & raise the engine up to help do this. Although I need to cut my firewall more so the distributor can go up...... Thanks again, I'll report back after I try this! Bill