Sheet metal belt guard rubbing the rear pulley

[ohiofarmer 3,265]

When i tightened the step or running board against the sheet metal, it felt like there was too much give. Sometime in the past life the Raider10 had a spacer or something to support and keep the sheet metal away from the transmission drive pulley. With no way to get washers back there, i needed a way to stick a spacer behind the sheet metal with no way to hold it there

.Just looking around the shop. I found some 3/8" rubber fuel hose and it fit a bit too tight to stay in the drilled hole. A bit of taper and a couple of slits with the knife and it stayed in the sheet metal with room for the bolt through the floor boards. A five minute job and happiness was mine.

 The pulley had worn a little groove on the back side of the sheet metal without damage, but this little fix cured the noisy condition and it was free with only a quarter inch of hose used.Maybe it will work for someone else faced with the same condition