arren123

I have a 90 Civic Si.
Today, my Moroso bar came in.. I decided to do a test run before I start my project. Lo and behold. The crank pulley doesn't have a casting for the tool. Oh well. I can use it on my other car.

Now I have to fabricate something to hold the pulley in place. I think I bought the right parts. I bought two 7/16" threaded bolts with nuts and a metal brace that I have to fabricate to my specs. Unforunately I don't have a 7/16" drill bit. Just a 3/8" and a 1/2" I'll have to go back to the hardware store.
I was going to stick the bolts in the crank pulley holes, along with the metal brace to stop the bolts from trying to twist. Then stick the moroso tool in between the bolts to stop the pulley from turning.

The 2 foot breaker bar will flex on me, but it won't break, right? I bought a 3 foot piece of 1 1/4" galvanized piping to use a handle extension. I'm a lightweight (140 lbs) so I think I need the extra leverage.

Pengo

worst comes to worse, or to save urself the hassle, find a shop or garage nearby, and just tell them u want them to take off the bolt. then either push it home or hand tighten it and brave the ride and hope its tight enough. any shop with a good impact gun and compressor will take that bad boy off so fast u'll wonder why u went thru all that struggle.

arren123

I'd rather be a man and try and take it off myself. I don't want to have to rely on a garage everytime I need to take off a crank pulley bolt.

Right now, the damn pulley bolt is the only thing stopping me from doing my minime swap..

brcivic411

i never thought of this before... i'm sure i could torque it down enough so that i could get it off again, but also so that it wouldn't come off in a 2 min drive home...

arren123

My contraption worked!
I'm finally a man! The damn f-in bolt turned after putting constant pressure on it with a whole lotta torque. Too bad it was just a test run. I tightened it back up to 100 ft-lbs until I start my mini-me swap this weekend.