Can you identify this piece?

[CajunKenny]

After I pulled my powersteering pump off my parts washer tray, this was sitting there.

I really doubt it came from inside the pump. It is however small enough that it could've come out of the tube that plumbs into the bottom of the PS Res.

My guess is that this is something that has been sitting wherever it was sitting for who knows how long from some other repair...?

I just want to be sure...

Thx!

 

[CajunKenny]

Ha! I just figured it out. It's a little keeper that goes on the shaft. It holds the pulley on.

Now I know. And so do you!

 

[SupraMario]

It looks like 1/2 of a metal hockey puck. LOL

 

[CRE]

It's called a 'woodruff key'.

 

[ForcedTorque]

It should be in place though, not flopping around your engine bay.

 

[CajunKenny]

'Woodruff Key'. I learned something new today! Thanks!

It wasn't in the engine bay. I took the stock pulley off to install an OBX. That explains how it ended up on my parts washer tray. Silly me...

 

[Supraholics]

Is your new pulley dampened? How much does it weight and did you noticed any difference after installation? Videos of it running and revving?

EDIT: sorry, I thought he was talking about the crank pulley...

 

[grimreaper]

it should be a SNUG fit on the crank ken. Toss the obx crap in the trash, thats really not what i would be "upgrading" for more power

 

[Jeff Lange]

it should be a SNUG fit on the crank ken. Toss the obx crap in the trash, thats really not what i would be "upgrading" for more power

It's on the power steering pump, it's not really an upgrade, but it's probably not hurting anything either.

Jeff

 

[92TealSupra]

Yeah I have seen these wood-ruff keys homemade before bad endings.. don't lose it and if you ever do, buy a new one from Toyota.

 

[grimreaper]

It's on the power steering pump, it's not really an upgrade, but it's probably not hurting anything either.

Jeff

I assumed it was the key for the crank and pulley too. I thought he found it on the tray after cleaning other parts. Not my day for reading comprehension it seems!

 

[CajunKenny]

We all have those days grim.

Hey! I finally posted a pic of my turbo on my build thread. Could you go check it out and see if it looks like yours? The guy I got it from told me it was an SP61 when I bought it; but, the last time I talked to him, he told me that it is a JT62.

 

[grimreaper]

i dont have the antisurge housing, and the wastegate looks different. Id call up jefff at hybrid motorsports. The wastegate looks like the ones on JT's from the pics. When i last talked to him i understood him to use bully dog wastegates or some upgrade (good thing).

Mines been polished and coated so eveything was ground smooth.

 

[CajunKenny]

He said that he bought it from www.notrice.com. A guy named Jeff Tamulous. Or something like that... Same Jeff maybe?

Mine also says "Boss Series" on the exhaust housing. If that helps any...

I'll give Jeff a call.

 

[ForcedTorque]

The boss turbos are a SupraSport thing, and I've never heard anything bad about them. I'm not sure if Jeff Tamulis has anything to do with them. Jeff has been around supras for many years, and has a fantastic reputation.

 

[Poodles]

JT in JT62 = Jeff Tamulous

 

[CajunKenny]

It sounds like JT is the man to ask!

 

[limequat]

I assumed it was the key for the crank and pulley too. I thought he found it on the tray after cleaning other parts. Not my day for reading comprehension it seems!

Good lord, man, I saw the pic and assumed he was about to send his crank pulley through the hood.

You remember that Steven Wright bit: "You how you feel when you lean back in chair and then you almost fall and then you catch yourself at the last second? I feel like that all the time."

I feel like that when I find an unexplained Woodruff key.

 

[Figit090]

I would think a missing woodruff shouldn't send the pulley out the engine bay... eventually it could unbolt but I don't see it going anywhere with that much force except down, and that's assuming it pushes off the shaft despite all the belts that run off it.

Maybe if it fell and ricocheted off something with it's rotational inertia...

what does everyone else think?

I mean it's not like a flywheel where it could blow apart...

 

[Poodles]

Belt tension causes them to be thrown up.