Crank pulley rubber ring?

[Django]

Hi guys hope you are all well these days,

I'm getting an intermittent noise that I'm unsure of. The noise pretty quiet and is a rattle alot like a bearing. It's coming from the passengers side and I can never seem to catch it occurring when i jump out of the car and have a look under the hood. I do have a noisy lifter and know it's not that, it's a very different noise and not a regular pattern like a lifter is, It's much more like a bearing noise. I know it's none of the bearings in the timing gear because these were all replaced and double checked by a mechanic just to be sure the tensioner was right and everything else was tight.

I was browsing on the net last-night and came across this forum " http://www.variousto...r-problems.html " and I'm wondering about what this guy 'Stewart DIBBS' says in the third reply to this post where he talks about the crank pulley having a 'rubber anti-vibration ring' in-between the crank pulley and the stud behind the lug nut. Any truth to this before I investigate the noise further?

My alternator belt is stuffed but I have no marks on the crank case and everything seems as though it's aligned when running although I'll double check tomorrow.

Thanks for any reply' that might eventuate

 

[Django]

ok so after further study there is a great little page on how these crank pulleys are built as I'm sure most of you are already aware, and I hope this helps someone out there aswell. http://www.machv.com/tip11cranpul.html

So I now understand the crank pulley has a rubber separator inside it, I'll look at the pulley tomorrow to make sure it'll hold up till i get a new one, by the sounds of things so far it will be the pulley.... I hope

 

[Django]

It's the water pump, cause I was a tight arse when i did the belts I didn't replace the water pump, so I copped it.