Beats me. Im guessing the bolt worked loose causing stress on the non threaded portion.  I don’t know if the bolt was torqued properly by the previous TD owner, or Chevette owner for that matter.

Update on broken pulley bolt.  Was able to extract the threaded portion of the bolt from the crankshaft. There’s a crankshaft spacer behind the timing gear on the crankshaft, and it had slid forward out of the engine block about 3/4 of its way out to prevent the timing sprocket from keying onto the crankshaft.  See the enclosed pics.

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Thanks, Paul.  The “delete” feature didn’t seem to appear anywhere on that particular reply Maybe because the reply was in the form of an URL, rather than a text comment? Anyway, I feel better now!

Looks like my steering wheel. My rivets are recessed a bit too, but have never bothered me. The rivets don’t look like they unscrew from the back. You might be able to sand the front side down to rivet depth, but could do more damage than good.

i copied and pasted it for you as a reply.

Seems he has one left. There are other similar sellers but make sure it’s real leather not imitation or the iron on process will melt it.  Also make note of mfrs logos location. Iron on might not hide…[Read more]