I bought the Moroso crank pulley wrench. It works great for holding the pulley in place. But I've broken too many tools trying to back out the bolt that holds it to the crank. That bitch is snug. Anyone else taken off their crank pully before?

 

all of the toruqe is being lost in the extensions. Use a deep 17 or 19- depending on engine, and a breaker bar. Lay on your back and use your leg...works everytime for me at home

 

My deep well 17mm is just shy of getting a wrench on it. I'll try it again tomorrow. I need to go buy a good breaker bar.

 

If you use those extension you lose a lot if not all your torgue right there. Your gonna end up needing an 8ft cheater bar with two big guys jumping on it to break it lose like that. Well thats what I did

Btw: Thanks for getting the proper tool to get that thing off the right way. I cant begine to tell you how sick and tired I am of ppl breaking something else because they dont get that tool to hold the pully propperly.

 

what i do is heat it up with a torch for about 5-10 minutes until the bolt gets almost red.

 

My deep well socket is too short without an extension!!

 

Is this bolt reverse threaded? Impact wrench?

 

impact wrench is your friend

buddy took mine off no problem with one

 

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no it isnt,


get the 1 and 1/2 inch extension and a breaker bar and go at it, unless u can get ur hand on a nice impact.

 

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when i did mine, i had tried getting mine off forever, then i hit it with some heat, and she broke loose!

 

put the car back on the ground put it in 5th gear and use ebrake and 17 mm with a breaker bar. works wonders.

 

3/4 in impact will pop it off quickly. 3/8-1/2 wont have enouhg torque. most decent shops will break it loose for you for around $10, then hand tighten it so you can drive home.

 

3/4 Impact or the special tool made to hold the pulley while you break the bolt loose, have also heard of people holding the pulley with a belt wrench.

 

you have to jam the flywheel in order to get it taken off

 

<TABLE WIDTH="90%" CELLSPACING=0 CELLPADDING=0 ALIGN=CENTER><TR><TD>Quote, originally posted by dohcVTECeg2 &raquo;</TD></TR><TR><TD CLASS="quote">you have to jam the flywheel in order to get it taken off</TD></TR></TABLE>

That is what I sometimes do however a good impact wrench will take the bolt off everytime.

 

Jam the flywheel? I have a crankshaft pully wrench. It came off with ease when I used a 1/2 inch breaker. I put it all back together. It runs awesome!!

Thanks for all the help guys. Definately appreciated!!

 

some crank bolts can become very stubborn

I had one that was a PITA even with my 800ft/lb impact gun

 

I had that same problem about a month ago.
I tried 300fpt impact wrench and even a 600fpt impact wrench with no results.
Eventually what I did was this:

1.Spray the crank bolt with bolt removal lube.
2.Remove the starter
3.Stick a flathead screw driver in the flywheel teeth and have some one hold it there.
4.Get a breaker bar with an extended handle and turn it counterclockwise.

Go here if you need more info:
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my 1/2 impact gun takes off all the crank pulleys i need it too, i have had one or two back when i was working here in my little shop that were real stubburn and i had a hard time getting off, i locked the flywheel with the snap on tool, and it came off with my breaker bar and a jackhandle for leverage

 

i bought a crank bolt remover from summitracing.com about 4 months ago to remove the damn bolt and i won't use another tool for my cbolt then my honda/acura crankbolt remover