Onebad1983
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Probably will be a while. When I do put the cam in I'm going to completely rebuild the motor because of the amount of miles on it
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How many miles? You might get away with just a slight refresh instead of a complete rebuild.
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iamdub
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Miles? Pfft. 200K on mine and been beating on it since 146K. Cammed it, raised the compression and am now beating on it harder. There's only one way to find its limits...
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OH, NO!!! It's RUUUUUUUST!!! MUST KILL IT!!!
...It's also unnecessary threads:
Let the engine idle while I hit it with a flap disc (also radiused the edge just cuz):
Then a wire wheel to clean up the rest of it:
Then some black paint:
With engine stopped. It'll look better once the paint dries and loses the gloss and it gets as dirty as the other pulleys:
...It's also unnecessary threads:
Let the engine idle while I hit it with a flap disc (also radiused the edge just cuz):
Then a wire wheel to clean up the rest of it:
Then some black paint:
With engine stopped. It'll look better once the paint dries and loses the gloss and it gets as dirty as the other pulleys:
George B
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I see a tiny bit of rust on the end of the P/S Pump shaft. Shame. 
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iamdub
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I see a tiny bit of rust on the end of the P/S Pump shaft. Shame.
I saw that afterward as well. I'll reassess after the water pump pulley dulls down. If it still stands out, then I'll clean and paint all of 'em.
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My only question is the thread you smoothed out. Why are there threads there if there’s no use for them 
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My only question is the thread you smoothed out. Why are there threads there if there’s no use for them
They were for the fan clutch which stopped being a thing in 04.
Still a "thing" on mine!
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Yup, 04. You should change it!
Really haven't needed to. Have towed campers at high altitude and run it around town in high 90° heat with no issues. It would be a nice upgrade, though!
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Still a thing on the '07-'14 2500s as well.
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I have all the parts other than the actual fans. Need To do this soon!!
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iamdub
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My only question is the thread you smoothed out. Why are there threads there if there’s no use for them
As the others said, it's for a clutch fan. It's not worth redesigning a pulley without the threads since the same water pump fits the older engines with the clutch fan (1999-), all the way through the 2014 engines.
You can buy caps to cover the threads. But, they're plastic or urethane so, eventually, it'd dry rot, crack and fly off the pulley. This was my possibly-semi-ghetto-but-free-and-immediate solution to something that was never a problem in the first place. I felt productive.
Well, the way I look at it if you saved ONE plastic or urethane cap, it was worth it! 
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Well, the way I look at it if you saved ONE plastic or urethane cap, it was worth it!
Hippy. Lol.
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I parked it out in the driveway so I could work on my work van in the shop. I kept looking at it and realized how incomplete it looked without the grille inserts. I left them out to make it easier to install the trans cooler, but that project will still be a while. So I went ahead and installed that black grille I bought so long ago.
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Then, I used some #0000 steel wool to scuff the water pump pulley so it'd match the other pulleys:
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Then, I used some #0000 steel wool to scuff the water pump pulley so it'd match the other pulleys:
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That’s better. Where’s the videos?!?? [emoji35]
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