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Old 08-24-2015, 12:10 PM
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Default L300 V6 PS Pulley Puller

OTC 4544 Low-Profile Pulley Puller
Awesome, heavy duty tool. Great construction. Exactly what you need if the power steering pulley is stuck on a V6 Saturn with less than three inches of clearance from the frame. Not quite out of the the box, though; however, all you need is a shorter bolt (M12-1.75 x 45 to 50mm), which you can find in any hardware store, and a thick, wide washer like the one at the top of shock absorbers so that the bolt is pushing against the pulley flange and not the pump shaft.

If you ever find yourself with a stuck on pulley and little room, try this tool first. It is well worth the money.

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Here's the puller in action on the L300.

If you look the puller up on Amazon, you can see what the puller looks like out of the box. (http://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/B...ilpage_o06_s00)

 
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Old 08-27-2015, 01:10 PM
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Exclamation After putting the PS Pulley back on, keep the puller.

My recommendation would be that if you needed a puller like this to take the pulley off, you might as well keep the tool for the next time. After the pulley was off, I could see the mounting surface of the flange was machined pretty poorly with a very visible burr. I don't know where QA was on this part when it left the machine shop.

Putting the pulley back on, I had to have the mounting bolts pull it in all the way. As much as I could, I cleaned and polished the flange. There is really not much room to do that well. I am very confident that if I had to take the pulley off again, it would not just come right off as it should according to the manual, but I'd have to use the puller again.
 
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