While the goose chase for a front pulley continues...progress today on more small stuff! Sheesh! So much small stuff!!!!
Called on new valve covers...that hadn't arrived while I was gone.... had been on back order from Ford, arrived at Rousch yesterday and shipped out today after the phone call to say "yes I still want the stinking valve covers!!" 
Hit some shops and picked up more stuff...
HD vacuum hose and another 1/2" hose barb for the PCV line to connect to the rear of the intake.
This stuff is HEAVY walled and shouldn't collapse. I had been using standard heater hose and it was looking like it had collapsed or had potential to do so...... This piece will feed the brake system, so no goofing around here!
Stopped by my clutch guy and bounced some things off of him....namely clearance on the pilot bushing. Mine was looking a tad galled, but I believe I had the clearance set a little tight. Shaft is .5904"ish in diameter so went towards .5940" on the lathe. Was a little tricky setting up a used piece in the lathe...but with a little talent helping me out, it came out great!
It was either take a light cut on this, or machine a completely new oillite insert....
Also tried to get a new (BCA 1625?) throw-out bearing but both my clutch guy and the other place I picked up my hose at were out! Ordered one....
Also got some small copper washers for the clutch and brake fittings...."just in case!" Worst case they are spares....they don't take up much room in the tool box!
While I was out, my bearings arrived from Giardi Bearing, for the idler pulleys.
This is what I took out of the idlers (new bearings on the left):
The bearing I took out was a 6003 which is too narrow. To take up the space, the PM (previous mechanic) used snap rings to take up the slack! I had pulled the bearing out and replaced them with the same...and put the snap rings back in.... Since I have learned so much about bearings....I looked into a larger (wider) size and sure enough, a #63003 2RS1 was available! Ordered three so that I had a spare...just in case... "they're small!" Pricey little buggers!! Ran me just over $30 each! ...but they did deliver to my door!!!
Used my assortment of sockets and such to press the old ones out, cleaned out the dirt, lubed with anti-seize and pressed the new bearing back in place, reinstalled the snap ring...like new!!
Mounted both idlers back up to the mounts and confirmed proper line up. Had to work on the bolt for one side as it didn't move in and out of the bearing easy enough for my tastes, so just dressed it with a file and polished it up with some worn 320 wet/dry sand paper.
Back to the Sharks game! Tied up, overtime!
Ciao!
Steve
