2000 Pontiac Montana Think my harmonic blancer is messed up

WAYSTLAND

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2000 PONTIAC MONTANA
6 CYL
2WD
AUTOMATIC
250,000 MILES

Hello, my belt has been slipping from the harmonic pulley, Now I have had the car for 4 years and replaced the belts a few times, I changed the belt tensioner and that did not fix the slipping.

Im wondering if the original owner but the pulley on backward what do you think?

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JAMES W.

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From your picture, thank you very much for it, the crank pulley definately looks farther out than the rest. To your knowledge, has it ever been off for any reason? I tried to bring up an exploded view of the lower pulley, but what I got wasn, t very clear. I'm try to determine if the pulley itself is seperate from the balancer. Looks like there are 3 bolts around the crank center bolt. I can't tell if these bolts hold the pulley "and" the sensor wheel, or just the wheel. You will have to look. Please advise.

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Thursday, December 4th, 2008 AT 1:21 PM

WAYSTLAND

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I know I tried to tighten it more and "bang it" but it was solid.
The car is parked till I get time to look at it this weekend.

But can that pully be on backwoars? I might just pull it off or try to find a another Montana and look under the hood. Lol
a few more original pics attached.

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Thursday, December 4th, 2008 AT 1:30 PM

JAMES W.

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There is definately something wrong there. You will know more when you get it apart. Let me know what you find, this is gonna' be good.

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Thursday, December 4th, 2008 AT 5:08 PM

MATTF6

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I have just had issues with my belt slipping, and the Harmonic Balancer looks about 1/2"out of alignment (same as yours).

What was the end result?

Thanks for any info.

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Friday, August 16th, 2013 AT 6:31 PM