So I was driving home last week and all of the sudden i heard a breaking noise coming from the engine bay and the power steering light came off, then the power steering went out! First thing came to mind was that the supercharger was fk*d, luckily I was turning to the street of where my house is and checked it right away. The belt broke and wasnt there anymore so I went to buy another accessory belt at my local parts store just to come and find out that the top smooth idler pulley was loose! I took off the stud holdling it in place and the whole center piece was shattered, bearings falling out and metal parts twisted.

I call procharger right away and they said that I should order another pulley..
days later and the new pulley doesnt come with the center piece where the stud sits in place?
I call back and they said that I needed to have the old center piece "shaft" and install it back in place...

So now I'm like how the hell do you take it apart, install all those little BB gun bearings along with the center piece?

Anyone knows what I should do?

Heres some pics for reference on location and both, new and old pulleys...( I have a procharger not a vortech but this is the only pic I could find for location reference)

 

Sounds like they need better customer service skills.

Sorry you have to deal with this.

 

That center piece is most likely just a spacer that sits inside of the ball bearing itself, which will probably need to be pressed in.

If that spacer isn't too ****ed up, a competent machine shop should be able to easily press it out and press it into your new pulley.

 

They don't look like they are even the same pulleys?