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Re: lower pulley

To: FrizBMG@aol.com
Subject: Re: lower pulley
From: Steve Laifman <laifman@flash.net>
Date: Tue, 01 Jun 1999 07:44:11 -0700
FrizBMG@aol.com wrote:

> On a Tiger ,the pulley is held on by 3 bolts as per common Ford smallblock
> practice until about 1970 or so when Ford decided that 4 bolts was a better
> idea for its 302.
> Tony

Tony, and Gary,

The main reason for the change wasn't that pulley needed more bolts, it was
that the external counterweight for the engines were changed from about 28
ounces to about 50 ounces.  This was to prevent using the wrong harmonic
balancer on the assembly.



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