Well i feel like i have tried everything to get the crank pulley off so i can do the crank position sensor and timing belt. I used two diffrent impacts, sprayed pb blaster... I EVEN BROKE A 4 foot breaker bar. Please tell me there is an easier way! Is there any small tricks?
Crank Pulley Removal!
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LJRuddy
Pop lock n drop
have you tried laying another breaker bar on the subframe, and using the ignition to turn the engine over?
dstig1
New Member
If you have a decent 1/2" drive impact wrench and beefy compressor, the only other thing you need is patience. My first crack at the crank pulley bolt took some 45 minutes of pounding with the impact wrench. Cranked up the pressure to ~100psi I would pound the crap out of it until the pressure got below 80 psi (~2-3 min), then wait for the compressor to catch up and shut off, then again, then again, etc. It will come. I just did the same thing to the crank bolt to change a timing belt on a Honda we just picked up as a spare car. That one took an hour to break loose. Once you realize that it will come once you beat the shit out of it, you just get bored waiting for it.
BTW, I do thi soften enough that I need a bigger impact wrench.... (IR 231 is what I have now - the classic).
Many have used the starter bump method (but not I). If so, please make sure your DIS is disconnected so it can't start!
BTW, I do thi soften enough that I need a bigger impact wrench.... (IR 231 is what I have now - the classic).
Many have used the starter bump method (but not I). If so, please make sure your DIS is disconnected so it can't start!
SeanMc
NoMoSHO
I've done just that, but I had a long enough breaker bar to lay it on the ground. Cranked the car for about a second, and it came right loose.
SASHO91
Zoom Zoom
i also have used that method.. starter/breaker bar. comes right off....
but do make sure that the DIS is unplugged.....
but do make sure that the DIS is unplugged.....
Mr Anonymous
Tire Wall
There's not really a nice way to say it, so here goes... You're probably not doing it right.5speedSHO said:
The starter bump method works, and is probably the most reliable method. Sure, it may take a few tries on a really stubborn one, but it works. It's even worked on cars where our 700 ft. lb. impact wrench running on 175 psi couldn't get the bolt to budge.
Try it again. More than once. Make sure the battery is fully charged.
The Dude
New Member
Yeah, I tried that starter method and completely rounded the bolt. I ended up drilling that sucker out. If the impact won't get it, start drilling, it's not that long of a bolt and it goes fast. I had carbide bits though.
Rockledge
Pluggin' away
A Craftsman Bolt-Out (size #13) will work on a rounded crank bolt using the same starter-bump method.
Mr Anonymous
Tire Wall
One of the most important pieces of advice working on cars: 6-POINT SOCKETS ONLY!!!
12-points have limited usefulness in my experience, and should be avoided whenever possbile.
12-points have limited usefulness in my experience, and should be avoided whenever possbile.
How about heat? That bolt is probably stuck because of minor corrosion. Heating the bolt and letting it cool, shocks and breaks the corrosion bond. Just don't heat it too much because of the dampner. Put a propane torch on it for a few seconds at a time and get it good and hot, but not too hot, then let it cool. Do that a couple times and I bet you can break the bolt loose. You will still have to probably use the starter bump method and if the bolt is rounded off, go to sears and get a set of bolt removers, they work! Here's a bunch of them to pick from
Will
Will
cloudAustin
New Member
bit size?
So what size drill bit cause mine is fixing to be round? And did you have a hard time fiding another crank bolt?
The Dude said:
So what size drill bit cause mine is fixing to be round? And did you have a hard time fiding another crank bolt?
MADDOG11
SHO Member
5speedSHO said:
If you are still having problems with the bolt, here you go.
Ah, nice to know I'm not the only one who had this very same problem about 9 months ago . I was working at a Ford dealer in the service dept. The tech working on it had never seen anything like it. He went as far as to barrow an Ingersol Rand 1" impact and it still it would't budge. He tried for a week of and on and nothing. In the end the only way he got it off was by using a impact chisle on the bolt's collar. When it came off the threads were not stripped, crossed, rusted or loc-tighted (as I was accused of doing at the 1st 60k). It seems that over time the collar tightened down on it's own since the engine spins the opposite way of the bolt. The collar of the bolt was a little chewed up but it was reusable. Have fun, Kevin.
I have a spare engine someone gave me and its on a stand. Im trying to figure out how to get the crank pully bolt off now! Any ideas?
MADDOG11
SHO Member
Shoman594 said:
If the impact is not getting it done, as I experienced, you may have to go the same rout as I did, impact chisle on the collar of the bolt.
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