After many hours of banging my head against a wall, my neighbor brought over his 3/4in impact gun. Bolt came off in, no joke, two seconds.

Now I have run into yet another problem. How do I remove the drive pulley. Haynes says to just pull it off, but the dam thing wont just come off. Should i re-insert the bolt a ways and pry it off via the bolt?

Input helps. Thanks in advance

 

bump

 

It should just pull right off.

Try tapping it with a rubber mallet, may free it up.

 

hit it with a rubber mallet hammer or LIGHTLY tap on it with a regular hammer. Then just pull on it. With enough pulling and tapping, it will come right off.

 

its a snug fit..
you can spray it with some bolt loosener

deep creep, WD-40 something like that

 

Do you mean the auxilary belts' pulley (just inboard of and touching the famous pulley bolt's washer) or the timing belt sprocket? My Civics' aux belts' pulleys always come off per the others' suggestions. Same for the sprockets, except for one time. For this one time I bought a set of cheap pullers from Harbor Freight, and one of these cheap pullers got it off. The puller's legs did not fit well, nonetheless, I finally got them to get a grip on the sprocket, and it came off. Pull very straight with no tilting.