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Originally Posted by Dorsh
After all isn't the sole purpose of the dowel pin just to facilitate placement of the pulley for timing?
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Yes, I believe so.
Technically dowel pins are designed to to be used for 'location', not for 'strength', but in this application I think it is necessary to have the dowel, I suspect the pulley would eventually rotate out of position without it. Personally I would be somewhat tempted to try red loctite on the face and shoulder, and visually line up the dowel hole with the broken pin, if the dowel can't be removed. That solution is not without it's risks though.