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Perhaps ottawanker could let us know how it got bent.



I really wish I knew how my old pulley got bent, but I have no idea. I guess it could've gotten hit by a rock or something, I doubt it failed on its own, but hey, anything is possible.

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but all the troubles I've seen so far have been from people not installing/removing them correctly (especially the DMD) or damaging them, rather than the part itself failing on it's own.



As far as I know, the pulley that was on the car was the pulley that Ford put on when the car was built. Since then it has had 9 years and 170,000 kms of abuse, and that may have had something to do with it, but it looked to be in good shape, just bent.