KB Fixed.. HOW TO INSTRUCTIONS INSIDE!

[VenomInside]

5 Mins + plastic coupler + 1 allen wrench = Problem Solved.

Sounds a lot better than 600 bucks now doesn't it? [Thats what a shop quoted me to install this.. LOL!]

Anyway..

Now what is a coupler you might ask?

Here are two pictures of it. It is from Kenne Bell and is 20.00 in price.

The Plastic coupler [green] resides between the two aluminum couplers [1 in the snout portion] and the other [In the blower portion].

Here is a pic of it installed:

Directions:

1) Use a 6mm Allen wrench to undo the bolts on the snout [NOT THE CASE] of the blower.


2) Pull snout off and insert plastic coupler onto aluminum coupler on the case side.

^ Snout portion

^Blower Portion

Green Coupler Installed in blower coupler ^

3) Now place snout coupler onto blower and align it with the plastic coupler.

4) Tighten bolts back down, reattach belt.

5) Check to make sure no oil go onto anything [There Might be a little bit that comes out but not much].

6) Enjoy! :biggthump

Thanks Gary, Peter, Tony, Gus for all the help!

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[The Pun]

cool - good to see you found the problem.

 

[PearlBlue L]

no problem, but i do charge $2 a second, maybe i should open my own shop.

 

[Flatliner]

Amazing how a little part can scare the crap out of ya! Glad to hear it wasn't something more serious... now you and I need to represent next Sat. at Byron, since we were no shows at MSC 4.0... what ya think?

 

[CobraSusie]

Funny how something so small can make such a BIG noise
Glad to see that it is all better Mikey !!! :headbang:

(Do you have any pics of the one you took out?)

 

[PearlBlue L]

(Do you have any pics of the one you took out?)

There wasnt one in there... it was on vacation or something... it seriously wasnt in there...

 

[CobraSusie]

There wasnt one in there... it was on vacation or something... it seriously wasnt in there...

Or the Kenne Bell was a little hungry...weird

 

[Racerx66]

Or the Kenne Bell was a little hungry...weird

Blower wasn't hungry, somebody forgot to put back in. I call that pretty f... up!!!!

And then Mike gets quoted $600.00 to have this installed!!! WTF!!! It took 5 minutes to put in without the removal of the blower. Folks better start getting honest with their quotes.

 

[CobraSusie]

Yeah they didn't even have the vaseline option

 

[PearlBlue L]

Yeah they didn't even have the vaseline option

i just use spit... its free and readily avaliable

 

[VenomInside]

Blower wasn't hungry, somebody forgot to put back in. I call that pretty f... up!!!!

And then Mike gets quoted $600.00 to have this installed!!! WTF!!! It took 5 minutes to put in without the removal of the blower. Folks better start getting honest with their quotes.

Amen!

 

[Wiked03]

Glad to hear that it was something cheap and easy.

 

[Mystic Terminator]

I think mine is fugged up on my heaton. Either that or its the bearing.

 

[VenomInside]

The weird thing is.. for anyone that has heard my car before the fix know just how bad it sounds.. i mean it was freakin loud its going to break bad.. but not its all fixie.

 

[gnxs]

Glad to hear that it was something cheap and easy.

:ditto:

 

[VenomInside]

BTW, when we opened up the snout and took it off.. there was no green coupler in there where there should have been. So we were like :thinking:

 

[Wiked03]

Questions I have:

Where is the original coupler?

Why did the blower not make the noise on Eric's car?

 

[VenomInside]

Questions I have:

Where is the original coupler?

Why did the blower not make the noise on Eric's car?

Good question.. none i have answers for.. i am as damn confused as you are..

 

[Mystic Terminator]

I think mine is fugged up on my heaton. Either that or its the bearing.

Well I pulled my snout off and looked at the coupler. It is steel and looks like it has steel hardened bushings and the cnout has aligning pins. It all looks good and no play in the snout bearing. Those rubber couplers are not the best, we use them in an industrial environment. Perhaps it is used to compensate for poor production tolerances. With Eaton using a steel coupler, they must be very good with thier tolerances.