Modifiying drive pulleys

[kerrywittig]

A common problem with the plastic drive pulleys is that they are two pieces that simply have a peened via heat way of joining the two halves together. After a time they start to seperate which lends itself to making for not only an unstable component, but as they seperate from the play in the three points where they are joined together the pulley actually becomes a "smaller" diameter and leads to the belt(s) slipping here is a fix with pix.................

!. Drill out the plastic attachment points one at a time with a 1/8th inch drill.
2. After drilling out just ONE.........insert a 1/8th inch X 1/4 inch long aluminum rivet with a backing washer. Then move on to the next one and repeat...........
3. What ever excess of the rivet that is remaining grind off so it will no impede the pulley from spinning unobstructed.

4. Done..................

Hope this is helpful to others...............Kerry
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[muddeprived]

That's a great fix. Wouldn't super glue-ing them back together work?

[hotrodzach]

it is a great fix
-Dalton

[ruben91792]

I super glued mine and they've held just fine.

[steve-o-reeno]

i thinnk that super glue would work just fine

[ANTS]

yep, try super glue, it worked on mine when I did the o-ring mod.