I have a few pulleys that I don't like the sound of when I spin them. One happens to be the sprocket toothed pulley. Am afraid to price a new one and would rather replace the bearing (NSK type) than the whole thing.

 

Anyone have ANY ideas on how to find a source for these???

thanks

bearings are annoying to source. ask the local auto parts stores or call a machine shop and ask where you can buy bearings. once you find a bearing supply place they can source the bearings you need using the number on the face of the stock pulley that you have. they'll cross reference and price all the different brands for you. or you can look up local bearing supply in the yellow pages or online at Yahoo Yellow Pages.

 

do a search on here and you'll see previously posted information on this.

 

be advised, without a press the old bearings are difficult to get out. i attempted to get them out by hand...didn't work without bashing the snot out of the pulley itself. i ruined a couple trying that. wasn't worth it, i finally learned how to repack the bearings.....much easier, takes less than 2 minutes and they are new when you're done. here's a write up i did on how to repack the bearings yourself. they are good as new once you're done:

 

http://www.ultimatesubaru.org/forum/showthread.php?t=49443&highlight=repacking

 

some pulleys i think have lips or something making the bearing seals harder to get to than the XT6 pulleys. all of the XT6 ones are really easy.

 

some pulleys are available brand new on http://www.thepartsbin.com, ebay and http://www.rockauto.com as well. typically they aren't that expensive to buy a brand new pulley. i know i've bought them before when working on cars for other people. XT6 pulleys are outrageous, i'd never buy them as they are easy to repack. EJ pulleys you'll have to check yourself. i'm almost positive the sprocketed pulley is an easy one to repack, the bearing faces are right there, nothing is in the way. the sprocketed one is typically noisey, i replace it every time i do an EJ engine.

Looking up "Subaru idler" on eBay always brings up some t-belt rollers for EJ engines.