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Check the belts. The smell could be from a belt wearing out or from a pulley being stuck and the belt having to drag over it.
If an idler pulley is broken, I would advise not to drive it anywhere. It would effect the power steering, water pump, alternator and coolant fan causing you to get stuck on the road and possibly cost many more $$ in damage.
A crank pulley also known as a crankshaft pulley is an essential part of a car. It transmits the mechanical power and torque, or the force of motion, through the pulley system to additional car elements.
well I pulled and pulled and it snapped today
Buy a rebuild kit and follow the instructions.
Sounds like the pulley that spins the blade is stuck. When the blade is lowered, the belt tightens on the pulley and spins it. If the pulley is stuck, it will not spin and the belt will "squeal" as it tries to spin it. The extra load that is added to the engine when the belt is trying to spin the stuck pulley is a bigger load than the engine can handle, so the engine stalls (stops). Check the blade pulley - or it is possible there may be some debris under the deck that is preventing the blades from turning.
A fixed pulley does NOT multiply the effort force or have a mechanical advantage. It only changes the direction of the effort force. A free pulley multiplies the effort by two. this means the free pulley has a mechanical advantage of 2.information from:www.mhscience02.com
The idler pulley has nothing to do with the brakes. If the idler pulley is bad it could throw or break a belt, and then your engine will stop.
Which pulley are you referring to. There is 5 or 6 on that car.
if there isn't anything wrong with the belt the pulley is turning, check to see if the pulley is stuck, you might need to replace the pulley ( about $30 )
If you pry up on the pulley with a bar on each side of it and while keeping pressure on the pulley, hit the end of the shaft that the pulley is on with a brass mallet, the pulley will usually break free.
It has the car belt wrapped around it, on the end of the car shaft.