[Nemesis Destiny]

Installed my new PWR radiator today, and while I had the old one out, I dropped in a Perrin lightened crank pulley, since the OE one was coming apart and unbalanced.

It was kind of stressful for me, but I got it all in, and everything seems to be holding okay so far. It is a 65km commute home from the shop, so if nothing bad happened in that space of time, I'm guessing that I did everything correctly.

All was not sunshine and lollipops however. The rad is a tight fit; I had to really muscle that thing into position so that both top brackets fit on correctly. The hoses appear to be routed properly though; the top neck on the rad doesn't seem to be too long. The cap, on the other hand, may be causing a clearance problem... or it could have been the plastic top from the coolant bottle sitting in the way, I'm not sure yet. It closes ok with the stock cap now that I've moved the debris out of the way

The pulley went on just fine, and the wobble from the old unbalanced one is gone. One discrepancy came up though, and I'm not sure if I should be worried about it or not; the instructions from Perrin say to torque the retaining bolt to 90 foot pounds, but Ali, the journeyman who is teaching me, says that Subies should have 130 foot pounds on the crank pulley bolt. I went with the 90 foot pounds, figuring that the manufacturer of the product might know something that Ali doesn't.

If anyone has any thoughts on either of these issues, feel free to post them.

Well, so far so good, as I said. Temp gauge is right where it should be, and the Butt-O-Metre™ says that there is a little more snap with the lighter pulley.