Ignoramus26227 wrote:
We bought two Chevy Kodiak dump trucks, with large stainless salt
spreaders, from CTA (Chicago Transit Authority). Both trucks are
equipped with Caterpillar 3116 diesels, snow plow mounts, hydraulic
PTO, and stainless hydraulic salt spreaders.

Three things sweeten this deal:

*) The stainless salt spreaders will probably pay for the purchase
*) They have almost brand new Bridgestone 11R22.5 truck tires, same as
our semi tractor, where the tires are very worn
*) One truck has 9,998 miles (true) and the other has a little under
15,000 miles. I believe this, because they belonged to CTA and they
would not mess with odometers.

We have no idea whether they can even run.

The trucks, though, are not without problems. They clearly sat around
for years. The biggest problem is that there is a lot of rust on the
main belt pulleys. So much rust that I am afraid to even try to run
these engines, as the rust may shred the rubber belts.

Is there any "easy" trick to clean that rust on the pulleys off,
without taking the engine out?

i


Being in a salt/rust area myself I can say there isn't a real easy way
BUT...

You can take an angle grinder with a wire wheel and get the worst of it
off. This also takes the burr off the edges of the rust pits and that
helps some more.
IF you can take the pulleys off this is a LOT easier and you can take
them into a blast cabinet, then paint them.

I get to do this quite a lot with snow equipment that has sat around for
a year or so. Stuff that has ever seen salt will REALLY rot quick, even
those stainless bodies come apart rather quickly with salt.

--
Steve W.