HELP - removing 4AC crank timing pulley

[slapper]

damn front oil seal is spewing oil forth at a steady flow - I can't work out how to remove the bloody crank timing pulley though ...

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hellllllp!!
Slapper

[BeRad]

I dont know about the 4ac, but mine just pulls off, give it a light tap with a rubber mallet or similar and it should just pull off by hand.

[2jzhilux]

lots of crc and a lever bar
last resort heat it up with oxy torch

[Draven]

are there 2 bolt holes in it to use a crank timing pulley puller? that was the easiest/only way to do it on the 2j

[Poggy]

should just come off, its probly seized on, try to get to screw drivers and put pressure on both sides, they can be very hard to come off.

[2jzhilux]

4ac's dont have bolt holes in that pulley
they can be a prick to get off

[Draven]

in that case I'd be tempted to skip the rubber mallet. soak it in inox and give the front of it a gentle tap with a hammer. the gentle shock should unstick it.

[Cuzzo]

Last resort without breaking the oil pump using the lever bar is to tap and drill two holes in the pulley. Then use a bearing puller.

However you will need to purchase a new pulley from mr toyota. i had to do this. Maybe check the keyway and see if its still aligned with the pulley.

[slapper]

thanks to all that have responded.
It sounds like perseverence is the order pf the day.

currently soaking with CRC and working away at it.


cheers,
Slapper

[slapper]

Hurrah hurrah - pulley has now been removed, everything has been dropped, cleaned (a bit), new seal installed and shoved back together. Now I have no excuse not to go to work tomorrow

a CRC spray every 15 miunutes, heating with a butane torch every now and again (don't know whether that helped or not) ... a cold chisel wedged between the pulley and the oil pump on the left (there's a ridge you can pivot on) and liberal "heavy tapping" of the chisel to see-saw the pulley off slowly but surely did the trick until there was enough room behind the puley to get an ordinary three handed puller onto it. Took me a couple of hours of patient slow-and steady work ... Crikey - goes back together bloody easy though!

cheers,
Slapper

[BeRad]

I like to put a bit of anti-seize grease on stuff like that, saves hassells in the future

[Dale]

I got one off once using a g-clamp haha

[BeRad]

Add that to the wst section .