Home Made Tool For Crankshaft Pulley

[venoman]

Iv seen one on this forum but i cant find it now, its to hold the pulley when you undo the bolt.

[ormi]

Iv seen one on this forum but i cant find it now, its to hold the pulley when you undo the bolt.

get a power bar with socket put on the crank bolt rest the bar against the chassis or the ground and give a quick crank over that should break the crank bolt away dude.

[nicki d]

mate i am trying this just now and it wont move. will i break something if i keep doing it

[steve2006]

They are incredibly tight so I tend to use a single hex impact driver grade socket (a lot thicker walls and heat treated so stronger) and a good long breaker bar, I did split a normal socket once doing the job on another car.

Put it this way the nut will loosen before the engine turns off its mountings.

[nicki d]

i have the nut off but cant get the pulley off no matter whati do. i am going to have to split the belt cover to change the belt

[steve2006]

Splitting the plastic cover will not only ruin the cover but you will still not be able to replace the cam belt without removing the crank pulley, you need to buy or hire a harmonic balancer which wobbles the pulley off.

Look at picture 19 on the tutorial below, different car same principle.

http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/engine/timingbelt.html

[Talisker]

I think I used a pulling tool to remove mine.

[TigerFish]

Splitting the plastic cover will not only ruin the cover but you will still not be able to replace the cam belt without removing the crank pulley, you need to buy or hire a harmonic balancer which wobbles the pulley off.

Look at picture 19 on the tutorial below, different car same principle.

http://www.lexls.com/tutorials/engine/timingbelt.html

It is just a standard pulley they are using in that tutorial. The harmonic balancer they are talking about is the fact the crank pulley is a harmonic balancer type, so they are confusing the issue with the puller.