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Date:         Wed, 31 May 2017 16:32:00 -0400
Reply-To:     David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         David Beierl <dbeierl@ATTGLOBAL.NET>
Subject:      Re: crankshaft pulley
Comments: To: jed batchelder <seabeejed@hotmail.com>
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If you can with difficulty rotate the crankshaft by hauling on the
alternator fan, that's about normal.  That's why your starter motor is
larger than one horsepower -- and a horsepower is enough to raise your
loaded van a foot in one minute.


Yrs,
d


On Tue, May 30, 2017 at 8:10 PM, jed batchelder <seabeejed@hotmail.com>
wrote:


> i noticed on my 83 vanagon that the pulley for the crankshaft is hard to
> spin by hand.   Is that normal. my alternator spins free with belt off and
> so does my water pump one.
>
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