[alphie]

That's an excellent question and I wish I could say for sure one way or the other.

Prior to putting the engine in the car I could turn the engine over with my 1/2" socket drive on the 17mm pulley nut. The fan pulley nut could only turn it over a certain amount before the belt would begin to slip. With the engine in the car I can't get my socket on the pulley nut but I can get a 17mm wrench - that becomes very hard to turn over and I have to use that with the fan pulley nut at the same time.

It could be binding but I'm not sure. The problem is I don't have much experience in that I don't have a good feel for how easily the engine should crank over, by hand.