i am tryin to replace my water pump. I need to know how to keep the wheel in place while i loosen the nut. http://www.cardomain.com/membe...06931 go there for a diagram and so you know what im talkin about

 

use an impact

 

youre gonna need an impact wrench. If you dont have one take off all the plastic gaurds and take your car down to a service shop or somewhere and ask if they have a impact wrench to take it off. You wont have to take off the wheel, you just need to jack up the car a little bit to fit the wrench inside to take off the nut. Also, do the timing belt while you are at it

 

my impact is a POS. what you might have to do is get someone to sit in the car and apply the brakes. then get a braker bar and dead blow hammer with an extension to clear the fender. enough pounding should free it up

 

Use a torch to heat it up first then it should come right off with an impact wrench. I've had to do this more then once.

 

Use a pry bar or big screwdriver to hold the flywheel in place.

 

That is the most ghetto diagram I've ever seen. Plus its called an Alternator, not Altinator. And technically its a cam gear, not a wheel.

The thing you are trying to get off is called a Crank Pulley, and the thing holding it is a 17mm bolt. Buy/borrow/rent/steal a good Impact Wrench. Every other method of getting it off is a waste of time. My Impact took my Crank Pulley bolt off in literally less than a second.

 

[QUOTE=FourthGenHatch]That is the most ghetto diagram I've ever seen. QUOTE]

Ya I know it is, thats what hapens when you are tierd and use windows paint. and I olny need it to show what I was talkin about.

and is there any other way of getin it off without an impact wrench. Because my tools and money are verry limited.

 

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Search for for "crank pulley" there are 40+ threads with info on removing one.

 

Torch it baby!!! Yeh fire fire!!! Sorry, I had a Bevis moment.

 

if I use an impact wrench to get the nut off, wont the crank still turn?

 

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Nope