Scootworks pulley for Vulcan 900 - too heavy?

[MrClean]

I'm not worried in the least bit. The pulley has worked flawlessly and I haven't noticed any problems with the hills I have around my town. I read in the OTHER pulley thread a guy was worried about having the pulley on his bike with his hilly area. I can appreciate the relative flatness of Kansas compared to that of the more mountainy terrain. I believe I would down shift when necessary. The 900 will run 90 in the 4th gear all day long so you ought to be able to get up a hill or two.

[MrClean]

I can't really say that, I haven't had the 900 doing 90 in 4th gear for a whole day so technically thats an exaggeration. I did have it doing 90 in 3rd last week for the better part of 5 minutes though and only shifted back down to 5th after a longer period in 4th when I thought I had shifted to 5th. It was busy on the highway. Grooved pretty good though.

[fljohnboy]

I have a scootworks pulley I haven't installed yet. It weighed in at 3.7 lbs on the scale at the post office. Don't know what the stock weighs since I haven't pulled it yet. Maybe someome can weigh one that they took off.

[slicktech]

My imprecise measurement yielded around 4 lbs for the stock pulley. So it sounds like they are roughly the same.

[MrClean]

Stock is 3 pounds 6 and 3/4 ounce on my digital kitchen scale.

Whats up boys. That's like three threads this week just about bashing scootworks. Is there something going on? Somebody got a motive to their madness or did the moons just line up on the wrong side of Scootworks bed?

[Fordster]

I'm convinced. Where's the best place to get one? Or do you have to get them directly from Scootworks?

[RichLockyer]

Originally Posted by MrClean

That's like three threads this week just about bashing scootworks.

+1

Seems to happen from time to time.

[MrClean]

Meancycles if our forum hosts BTK doesn't carry them. Or you can go to Scootworks, but you get 5% off if you join the Delphi 900 group and use their discount code + you get free shipping over 100 bucks so it's cheaper than going to Scoots and you employ 2 sets of people.

[semimek]

dang wish i'd known that last week when i ordered mine from scootworks direct

[Trashman900C]

Originally Posted by MrClean

Meancycles is our forum hosts BTK doesn't carry them. Or you can go to Scootworks, but you get 5% off if you join the Delphi 900 group and use their discount code + you get free shipping over 100 bucks so it's cheaper than going to Scoots and you employ 2 sets of people.

[MrClean]

That should say IF. I changed it.

[Somerset]

The Scootworks pulley is about 4 lbs?! I guess I need to calibrate my arm - I was 100% sure that it is at least 10 lbs ;-(
Oh, well, going to the post office tomorrow to check if mine weights the same.

Thanks everyone for all the input.

Cheers,
S

[Trashman900C]

Originally Posted by MrClean

Meancycles if our forum hosts BTK doesn't carry them. Or you can go to Scootworks, but you get 5% off if you join the Delphi 900 group and use their discount code + you get free shipping over 100 bucks so it's cheaper than going to Scoots and you employ 2 sets of people.

5% discount where? meancycles?

[Somerset]

I just weghted the Scoorworks pulley at the post office and it is 8.7 pounds; this makes it about twice and heavy as the standard one.
I also received an e-mail from them and they say that they are aware of this difference and it shouldn't be a real problem.
I am going to install it, but I do not feel exactly happy about the whole thing.

S.

[Alf]

My two cents. A pulley twice as heavy as the OEM cannot be good for the output shaft bearing unless this bearing was grosssly over engineered during design. I guess the true test will be to see what the affect is as the miles rack up. I am also surprised the weight of the after market pulley was not taken into account during design.

[gdhugh]

I guess I don't understand what the issue is. The pulley weighs twice as much. And that matters because.... Hmm.
Look, as far as the shaft bearing is concerned, the force generated by the tension of the belt on the bearing is greater, thus negating the weight of the pulley.
my2ct

[Bender]

what the @#! ?? people here say the P.O. scale says 3.7 lbs for the scoot pulley, and other people say the P.O. scale says 8.7 lbs...

I don't see how people can get such a huge difference

[NewRoadie]

Originally Posted by Bender

what the @#! ?? people here say the P.O. scale says 3.7 lbs for the scoot pulley, and other people say the P.O. scale says 8.7 lbs...

I don't see how people can get such a huge difference

Maybe front and rear pulley weights????

I thought the stock front pulley was steel and the front Scootworks pulley was aluminum. Can anyone that has actually installed the front pulley confirm or deny this??

[Somerset]

From the e-mail I've got from Scootworks, the original pulley is "cast aluminum part".

As for the different weght that others are reporting - has Scootworks changed their pulleys?

S.

[Bender]

From the e-mail I've got from Scootworks, the original pulley is "cast aluminum part".

I also emailed scootworks, and was also told the 'original' scoot pulley was cast aluminum, and the 'newer' pulley is a more durable alloy...

I'm going to order the front one.