Friday I was driving home and the battery light illuminated on my dash. I pulled and looked it up and it said stop driving immediately. When I looked up my temp gauge was spiked so I turned the car off. When I popped the hood I saw the belt was off and assumed my belt snapped. When the tow truck came He took a quick look at it and said he saw a pulley was sitting at the bottom of of the engine bay. I could see the supercharger pulley and he was pointing below it, so I'm guessing it was whatever pulley is directly bellow that. What pulley is below the supercharger?

 

Crank pulley. Common problem. Replace it with an ATI from Way.

 

Thanks for the quick reply. I'll see if Way can overnight one to NY.

 

That is my educated guess, based on your limited description. Can you take a picture so that we can better help you? Go to page 30 of this DIY posting:

http://www.mini-madness.com/pdf_file...EY_INSTALL.pdf

It shows you the routing of the serpentine belt and the location of the various pulleys.

 

Could also be the idler pulley. Part #3. I had this happen to me once and it was this one. But the more common one is the crank pulley

 

It's at the shop now, and they haven't had a chance to look at it yet. I'm waiting to see what they say it is. I just wanted to be one step ahead of them. I didn't get a look (or photo) of the broken pulley. After looking at the PDF you linked, I see there are three pulleys below the SC pulley... Could be anyone of them for all I know.

If they comeback and say it's a crank pulley, I'll let them know I want to replace it with at ATI version. Since the stock and ATI version and pretty close in price, I don't see when I shouldn't use the ATI.

Thanks again!

 

I swapped to the ati one....got it from waymotorworks.....and am happy...got it done before failure, but i can say the car idles a bit smoother, so you do get a better, longer lasting product from ati than the oem.
But do have the mechanic look around....a failed tensioner, like bram said can result in a similar event....that CAN take a chunk out if the crank pulley....
Good to hear you pulled it over, and saved the motor rsther than trying to drive it and blowing the head gasket or worse....we tend to hear lots folks folks that think a bunch of RED lights means keep going, and get the car fix later!! Usually results in a huge bill....and the mechanic sending his kid to a better school for college! ! Jk

 

Yes we can hook you up with the ATI Damper as we have them in stock.

 

Are the pulleys you guys mentioned a common issue , my MCS is nearing 90k and i definitely don't wanna be stranded

 

Yes they are. Just keep on eye and ear out for the telltale signs and you should be ok.

 

I changed mine out using Ati 2% pulley prior to failure. I sleep better, just one less thing to be concerned about.

 

Yes crank pulley failures are pretty common, we've actually had weeks were we have done 4 in a week, especially when it starts to warm up.

 

I just replaced mine with an ATI one from Way. Got 102K miles out of the stock one. I hear that that is a long time and they frequently go bad between 60 and 100K miles.