cant get #$@#ing crank bolt off!!
10-21-2002, 01:50 PM
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cant get #$@#ing crank bolt off!!
argh we have tried everything!
huge breakover bar - result, bent the bolt we used to keep the engine from turning
impact gun - result NOTHING happened
is this thing reverse threaded or something? i tried the impact the opposite way and it didnt do anything either..
any insight? the only reason were takin it off is so we can get the plastic cover off to change water pump and timing belt.. help ASAP guys! thanks
huge breakover bar - result, bent the bolt we used to keep the engine from turning
impact gun - result NOTHING happened
is this thing reverse threaded or something? i tried the impact the opposite way and it didnt do anything either..
any insight? the only reason were takin it off is so we can get the plastic cover off to change water pump and timing belt.. help ASAP guys! thanks
10-22-2002, 03:21 AM
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is the engine in the car or on a pallet or engine stand?
if its on the pallet...remove the tranny and clutch...take wrench and bolt it into the flywheel using a flywheel bolt...then take a tranny bolt and move the flywheel up so the other side of the wrench will get stuck there...that create sufficient hold to work there
if the engines in the car then remove the tranny is too hard so take off the starter and stick a screwdriver end (standard) into where the starter teeth and flywheel touch...it'll get in there and won't let it turn
if its on the pallet...remove the tranny and clutch...take wrench and bolt it into the flywheel using a flywheel bolt...then take a tranny bolt and move the flywheel up so the other side of the wrench will get stuck there...that create sufficient hold to work there
if the engines in the car then remove the tranny is too hard so take off the starter and stick a screwdriver end (standard) into where the starter teeth and flywheel touch...it'll get in there and won't let it turn
10-27-2002, 08:41 PM
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I also had a lot of trouble with mine, but once I put a descent 1/2 inch impact wrench on it it let go with no fuss at all, and that's after 13 winters in Minnesota... Get a descent tool, or borrow one, and you'll be fine...
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10-28-2002, 02:00 PM
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take off the flywheel cover, and slide a screw driver in between the flywheel and tranny housing. Then hit it with a big breaker bar... Works every time for me.
10-28-2002, 02:20 PM
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Originally posted by crxrocks
Nope, the bolt is regular threaded... do you have a decent impact wrench or just a cheapy?
chris
Nope, the bolt is regular threaded... do you have a decent impact wrench or just a cheapy?
chris
10-28-2002, 06:48 PM
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Originally posted by fujiwara takumi
i can get far more torque out of my breaker bar then i ever do out of my impact gun.
i can get far more torque out of my breaker bar then i ever do out of my impact gun.
10-28-2002, 06:54 PM
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Originally posted by Bakeoff
3 ft breaker bar with a 4 ft pole on it, hang my skinny ass on it, and you make more than any impact wrench!
3 ft breaker bar with a 4 ft pole on it, hang my skinny ass on it, and you make more than any impact wrench!
I usually break the socket with my 2footer though, and i got snap on and craftsmen ****.
10-29-2002, 05:03 PM
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Buy or borrow a high tq. impact, A big breaker bar will just split sockets. I had the same problem, I bought a 100 dollar impact and it was a piece of ****. Spent 200 dollars on a better one, now everything's gravy. 