f150harleytruck7

how do u remove the crank pulley on a 1.6 civic, and is it regular or reverse thread?

jadugartir

have to get a damn special tool unless you have one hell of an impact.

It fits inside the hex shaped hole in the crank and lets u put a breaker bar on there and one on the bolt and you can crack it loose. they cost like 25 bucks on amazon.com.

96 EX

jesus christ dude we spent 3 hours trying to get the crank pulley and the harmonic balancer off of mine and broke 4 nuts and finally on with a heavy duty impact wrench(200pounds) got it off..

f150harleytruck7

it tried a large impact but it did nothin, maybe need more psi , the compressor only goes to like 100psi, did u use somethin to support the pully?

O RLY

We got a breaker bar and literally stood on the bar. Theres a chance of breaking something, but I've used this technique three times and it has yet to fail me.

chinkest_raver

lol i have tried for 6 mos now and still i can't good luck. I tried standing on it with a breaker bar everything. i might just take it in to a shop and get it off..i need to rebuild my motor!

littleredcivic

the honda crank pulley removal tool is the ****. if someone needs them, call your snap on guy or head to the honda dealer. if you are in the so cal, you can borrow mine for a burger and some fries.

f150harleytruck7

i ahve 2 motors, one has the hex for that tool, but the other one has hols aroud the outside edge, how would i get that one off?

littleredcivic

can i see pictures of the one with holes? what year is that from? what model?

suprmods

the holes are probably from when they balanced the pulley. They drilled the holes to remove the weight at that area.

Here is a recent thread discussing the same thing.

https://honda-tech.com/zerothread?id=1461254

A chain wrench works well at holding the pulley, otherwise you could try jamming a screwdriver in the flywheel (I didnt try it but others say it works).

kleanlscivic

i used an impact gun, no problem at all but get the honda special tool