so basically a long story short, i was duped by a member here on the forums, i traded some stock parts plus cash for an entire supercharger assembly and kit. the trade went very smoothly and i expected a mostly usable charger except maybe replacing a couple bearings which was no biggie, but when i pulled the pulley side apart to rebuild i found that the two bearings were so bad they fused together as well as fusing the pulley to the first bearing. and the worst of it all is when the bearings went out they ground the shaft down by a 1/8th of an inch therefore the bearings will not fit the shaft which now has to be replaced as well. so basically this rant is to ask if there is anybody selling a GOOD shaft and maybe even an entire pulley side assembly for any year i don't care. if no one is selling any shafts then point me where i can get one, i know i can get one from gompka but he is currently not offering them according to his website.

 

I have a used oem TRD shaft with about 5K miles on it, its in perfect condition and so are the bearings on it(I would change them out thou for better ones), I'm willing to sell you the entire thing, but not sure how much you are willing to spend on it.

 

100-150 bucks is a good price. If you need bearings for the compressor side come see me.

 

hey werewolf if you dont need the cast aluminum bearing mount/housing (don't know the technical name but its on the green rag in picture 1) then i'll buy yours or his. that should soften the 100 to 150 you are paying for.

 

i may need a replacement housing for the pulley side myself, the one i have has been damaged on the inside, i'm not sure if it matters since the bearings' inner race is the only moving part, when i say damaged i mean it is scuffed with a few nicks with the inner diameter still the same.

 

well keep me in mind if you dont need it

 

Your still fine, when you put in new bearings, you can use loctite bearing glue and the scratches on the housing won't matter, as long as the housing inside diameter didn't get changed much.

I will be making another batch of shafts, lots of interest lately as a bunch of s/c's have died lately. I'll have more info asap, I say for now take off the shaft side, put on your stock belt, put on stock intake, and you can drive your car like that with the blower side still attached to the car.

 

let me know if you change your mind, gompka says you wont need the new one. i have been calling around to get mine welded because i cant find someone who is selling theirs. i just figure i would be cheaper to buy yours then the weld.

 

ok so i got the new shaft and have new bearings on it, thanks GWTC, anyways, i now need to press this shaft with bearings into the housing and the bearings are currently pressed onto the shaft, what is the best way to get them into the housing without damaging them if i can't get a bearing press. everyone around here wants to charger over a hundred bucks to press them in. any ideas?

 

The shaft with bearings does not need to be pressed into the housing, they will slide in by hand if done right, it might take a few tries, if aligned properly it will slide in nice and easy, if you go here:
https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=178268

Read post #11 and #20 for tips on what to look for and what you might need. The part that I talk about in post #11, if you can I would have that piece welded together instead of putting JBWeld on it, if you can I would do it to the other piece that it mates up to, the one that connects to the blower, hope that helps and good luck. I had another incident with my set-up and I will be making a new post about, it has info that I feel everybody that owns a SC should read, I'll try to have it up by today or tomorrow.

 

well i hope i'm able to get them in then because it just dosn't seem to want to go without being pressed. if they have to hammered out then how come they can be slid in place, maybe i'm missing the right tactic or something. also i read your posts you suggested and i'm not sure of where you are putting the loctite and i'm sure getting it in the bearings would be really bad lol.

 

You can try to put it in by hand, you can also use a hammer to help you, although i don't recommend it. You never want to hammer the shaft itself as it will bend, its hollow. You would need to find a pipe that would go over the shaft and rest on the inner race of the bearing. That way you could hit it with a hammer a few times to help you get it in if you need to.

 

would putting grease on the inside of the housing help slide it in (so to speak) and if so, how would i apply the loctite if there is grease coating the housing walls. i'm also thinking of installing a grease fitting. i checked your website Gompka on installing the grease fitting but i couldn't find anything, i'm assuming its as simple as drilling a hole between the two bearings and then tapping to so it has threads and then thread in fitting, push some grease in and viola?

 

yep its that easy, here is the thread about it

https://www.scionlife.com/forums/sho...d.php?t=164208

 

No..do not add grease to the inside of the housing, trust me when I say if you align it right it will just slide in easy(the loctite will act as a lubricant and will help it glide in), you need to clean the inside of the bearing housing with like brake cleaner, then you buy 3 of those loctite bottles, they are very tiny, put on some latex gloves, add 2 of the loctite's inside the housing, do one at a time thou and use your finger to spread it around in there, the last one you will use on the actual bearings, be very careful not to get any of it on the sides of the bearings where they spin, just add it to the top of the bearings, the outer race, then carefully insert the shaft in the housing and if aligned properly it should just slide in easy, I've done it twice now and both times it worked like a charm for me, hope that helps and good luck.

 

your shaft will drop right in if you put the housing in the oven set at 250-300
and your shaft in the refrigerator. then follow what GWTC said and DO NOT use grease to help slide it in. i just tried it and it works really well

 

Great advise, that should work well!

 

Isn't the housing made of aluminum? if so wouldn't it be a bad idea to heat it up? doesn't aluminum warp when heated up? I don't know thats what I was told, but maybe 250-300 is not enough to do anything to it.

 

thats what the shop that has been working on my bearings told me to do and it worked great for me. that mount is so close to your engine it is reaching relatively high temps every time you drive. if you want to be on the safe side do 200. with a melting point of 1220 F you have nothing to worry about