TRD/ Magnuson 4.0 Supercharger Tips, Tricks, and Mods

We used car part at my old job all the time. They were very good at locating whatever you were looking for nationwide.

 

Car parts is solid. They are one of my customers at work.

 

Annoyed by the morning squirrels squeaking on cold starts, I tried to torque the crank pulley. Still there after checking torque to 185 ftlbs. Anybody have luck shutting up the idler? Sounds like the lower or somewhere.

 

Spray a little soapy water solution on each idler until you catch the culprit.

 

Baby steps!!!

 

They rock.

Are you running a qwikchange? I need to know what sort of mods you have done to your idler system. I have baby squeaking as well, but I know exactly what the issue is, I just have no way of correcting it.

 

Is that a smaller pulley on a OEM 130A alternator?

 

So I see these high amp alternators- is everyone swapping out the 140 amp fuse and beefing the wires too?

 

Hardly lol! I think the idea though is to get more amps at idle and cruising RPM

 

I wouldn't mind having more output from the alternator. I just don't feel like buying one of those as expensive as they are.

 

What tool is that you're using to torque the crank bolt? I still have all my NST light weight pulleys in a box... was wondering how people were getting the crank bolt on and off.

 

breaker bar, starter motor, and frame

 

You're manual trans aren't you? Pull all fuel related fuses, place a breaker bar on the crank and brace it against the frame. Bump the starter, a loud nasty noise will happen and the breaker bar and crank bolt will fall on the ground. Just make sure you know which way it spins so you brace the breaker bar on the proper side.

 

Swapping out wires with this ALT, gonna put a fuse between the ALT and BATT. The 140amp fuse you speak of, is it the one in the fuse box?

 

Solid. And yeah, manual.
What if I wanted an excuse to buy a new tool...

 

I also wanna be able to torque it properly upon install.

 

250amp alt, NST pulley

 

Yup. Smooth flow qc. No mods to the idler anymore. Had a belt wrap mod but removed it trying to chase this morning start noise. Then I I swapped my alternator so I had to tensioner so I had the middle idlers out the but didn't touch the bottom since I thought the noise was originating on the upper. Seems to have moved to the lower lol.. or was always there.

Didn't want a mess. Hate wd40 for anything other than penetrating fluid. Was hoping there was something like ptfe dry spray but will give it a go

 

Manual is super easy. Put in 6th gear. Do your work.

 

Just have Les Schwab tighten it, their torque spec for lug nuts is north of 200 ftlbs