Fun fun fun.... I have a pully that I moved from my old generator to my alternator when I bought it a year ago. The '65 (40 hp) has been running great as a result, and the pully lines up with the one on the crank...but lately the alternator has been making noises... thought that the bearings were going... turns out the pully is slicing into the face of the alternator -- ground over 1/2 way through the webbing that supports the front bearings!
The center piece of the pully has a slight indentation. Apparently that makes it sit down into the face of the alternator a little too far... funny, it ground into the face of my previous generator too.... but it is the best pully I have.
So what SHOULD the back of the pully look like right at the shaft where it rides on the center spacer of the alternator? This one has an indented ring around it... thus it sits lower against the face of the alt/gen.
Also, my H30/31 PICT carb has developed a "slight" air leak... the 1/2" plug in the face fell out! So I dug through my spare parts and found an old, newly rebuilt PICT 28 carb... it is really looks nice, but it has a ceramic
6V automatic choke.... guess I will have to hunt the parts places for a new 12V version... Sure I have some 12V chokes sitting around, but they are too big. This 28 PICT carb has a much smaller diameter on the choke. Almost, I hate to get the nice clean carb dirty by using it... Anyway, my question is, on the PICT H30/31, is it advisable to just push the plug back in, or do I need to use some sort of locktite or something? It is the plug that looks right at you if you open the hood and peak in at the engine... down hear the bottom of the carb.TIA! KWW