Well the car the blower was in got hit a few months back on the drivers side front. Put the car back together, fired it up, and about pooped my pants when I heard a metallic grinding noise. Shut the car off and spun various pulleys and found my idler pulley was completly frozen. Also found the SC made a funky whirring/rattle when the car idled.

So thinking the bearings fell to a similar fate as the idler pulley, I pulled it apart to see what was up.

Anyway how the crap do I get the compressor wheel off? I'm guessing I need to take the bearings off the shaft and push it out from behind.

I've upgraded the bearings/belts last year by a local mustang guru, but I'd rather know what is messed up before buying more bearings and bugging him.


Video of noise (ignore background noise) - http://www.iheartboobs.com/m3/blower/video1.mpg

Video of belt bearings....the smaller one makes noise when spinning, while the bigger one doesn't:
http://www.iheartboobs.com/m3/blower/video2.mpg

http://www.iheartboobs.com/m3/blower/sc2.jpg

Hooray for belt dust:
http://www.iheartboobs.com/m3/blower/sc3.jpg