Date:         Wed, 23 May 2012 16:15:46 -0400
Reply-To:     Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
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From:         Kenneth Lewis <kdlewis@NORTHSTATE.NET>
Subject:      Re: Photos of broken alternator pulley
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I blamed this on a fouled plug on my 356.
    My theory: The fan belt was trying to transfer the uneven rotation of
the crankshaft  to the cooling fan, whose rotational inertia would
tend to resist this sever change. The pulley was the weakest link .

Luckily it never failed catastrophically.



Ken

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