Hey gang,

Just swapped out a bad idler pulley yesterday, everything's back up and running fine. (No more screaming bearing noise )But I was curious...the 3 bolts that hold the idler / generator bracket to the cylinder head were actually tapped into the water jacket in the head. First, is this retarded? And second, I didn't do this but should I take them out and put some teflon tape or pipe sealant on the threads of these bolts just in case?

I was of the school of thought that all bolts that go through water / oil passages should have teflon tape or pipe sealant on them. Both the GM shop manual and Chilton's don't address this lovely piece of engineering, they just show a breakdown of the parts. No info on taking it off, etc.

Any help would be appreciated.


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Well if it were me I would use some permatex high temp thread sealant comes in a tube and is like liquid to put on those bolts.It sure would not hurt and give u a small piece of mine that at least it's on thier.

yeah, I might just do that. Better safe than sorry. Thanks, Ron.




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Just bought me a new idler pulley today not that mines gone but,I am replacing literally everything a little piece at a time.Think I will take my own advice and use my permatex stuff on those bolts u talked about daryl.I have not done it yet was out tooln around today trying out my new shocks and picked up the part,guess I will do it this weekend coming up.

Got everything removed rite now and have sandblasted the altern bracket and gonna leave it the aluminum color it is,looks kinda cool.I have used muriatic acid to strip the paint off the bolts and cleaned it,in primer and paintn in progress.I had my cam but ,the wifes got it she went to the beach,I show pics I guess later of it all done.

Good deal, Ron. Post pics as soon as you get a chance!

I have had no leaks since buttoning everything up on mine, and I didn't take it back apart. But like you said, Its better to be safe and throw a little "pipe dope" on there. Sounds like you're really going to town on your Type 10.

Ok daryl I have some pics coming soon,I was not really safisfied with some I took today.I will post them up soon this week of my new shiny altern bracket and pulley.I still have to install my new rear springs too busy do other stuff this wkend,those will b in the other post for ebay stuff sense its unrelated topic once I getm installed.

[IMG] Here is the idler redone or new with a clean washer and painted bolt. [IMG] Here is the alternator bracker polished out hope this is a good enuff pic.