I'm trying to remove the crank pulley on my b16a right now and have run into a few problems. First of all when i try to remove the bolt that holds the pully in place i end up just cranking over the engine. The sparkplugs are installed and are about hand tight. I've tried holding the cam gear with a wrench while cranking on the pulley bolt. It's deffinetly snug on there so i was wondering if i should just give er' **** and crank on the damn bolt as hard as i can or will it demage the timing belt?

I also plan on removing the cam gears to change the cam seals after the new T-belt is in place, so same question, how i i keep them from turning over as i loosen the bolts?

 

go rent a pulley remover tool from your local autoparts store and do it the right way

 

the removal tool + air impact gun

 

I used a chain wrench, wrap it around the pulley. Get a long *** breaker bar and that did it for me.

 

Get a bad *** impact gun.......should pop right off. I remember when I was trying to take off my crank pulley from my b16 when it was OUT of the car.....that thing was a bitch. We didnt have an impact strong enough to take it off, so we used like a 3 foot breaker bar to get that thing off.