I have this harmonic balancer bolt giving me tremendous amounts of grief...

[JadeEstevez]

So... I have this harmonic balancer bolt giving me tremendous amounts of grief... We tried putting the car in gear, Handbreak on, Block behind the wheels, Foot on break and a pole slipped over the break-out bar I have, Still didn't budge. It started climbing the rock! And we bent the pole over the break-out bar...

Any Idea's how I remove the damn thing!?

[airfireman1]

Use a impact socket and a strong T bar and lock it against the rotation of the engine, make sure it is secure and the give the starter motor a flick over, it just needs a sharp jolt to initialy get the bolt moving

[dnegative]

Two ways;
Rattle gun
Spanner on bolt, get a length of pipe, put on spanner vertically and strike with a big hammer. Identical to using the starter motor yet more powerful and your not going to fuck anything.

[LittleRedSpirit]

Ive had to stoop to hitting the starter before with the breaker bar striking the gargage floor. It worked, although was kinda risky and stupid.

[JadeEstevez]

We tried a big bar over the break-out bar. It just started bending and my break-out bar also started flexing. It's not a small break-out bar either...

My car is out on the road so No power points and I don't wanna pull the whole front end off to get a rattle gun in there... I suppose I'm being fussy but I have never had so much trouble with this, I usually just put the car in gear and then I can crack it by hand. This is ridiculous. O__o

[JadeEstevez]

Not keen on starting it with tools attached! Hehe.

Although I'm getting close to resorting to that!

[TERRA Operative]

When you do get it off, clean all rust from the threads, crank and pulley and give all the threads and mating surfaces a good coat of nickel based anti-seize.

I used a breaker bar first time on my 4AGE, now I just use the battery rattle gun and the pulley basically falls off the crank.

[dnegative]

We tried a big bar over the break-out bar. It just started bending and my break-out bar also started flexing. It's not a small break-out bar either...

My car is out on the road so No power points and I don't wanna pull the whole front end off to get a rattle gun in there... I suppose I'm being fussy but I have never had so much trouble with this, I usually just put the car in gear and then I can crack it by hand. This is ridiculous. O__o

Make that with a spare spanner and pipe

[JadeEstevez]

I'll look into making a tool something like that tomorrow.

Yeah I am thoroughly cleaning everything so I won't miss the crank shaft or threads I'm trying to make everything relatively spotless, Ready for AllJapanDay.
I have been wondering if the last owner perhaps used locktite?

[dnegative]

He is a fucking asshole if he has, your going to need some heat to melt the stuff. You will kill the front main so buy one of those too.

[JadeEstevez]

I've got a full gasket kit! I intend on replacing everything on the front of the engine so it's no worry I'll try heating it like you said actually, I hadn't thought of that.

[Draven]

I cranked a 2j crank pulley bolt with a breaker bar and pipe, + starter - and they're meant to have one of the tightest factory bolts (over 300nm from memory?)

I'd suggest a shit load of Inox, reasonable heat application, some more inox, some more heat, and then the above methods... otherwise flat tow to somewhere you can get a big fuckoff rattle gun in there

[JadeEstevez]

At my dads house I could, He only lives 7 minutes away. But I don't want to have to remove the headlights, Grill, Bezels, Bumper and then radiator to get to the bolt...

I will try the heat method for sure though! I'll get my dads portable blow torch onto it.

[LittleRedSpirit]

and if it still wont come loose after that then maybe try Ice the bolt before cracking it, just to shrink it a tiny margin. I've had success with possible snapped cross threaded bolts before which Im sure would have snapped had I not cooled them off. They can get real hot when turning them out. I had one on my moto where the dick who assembled it at the dealer rattle gunned the foot pegs on crossed up and I had to have a helicoil fitted.

[JadeEstevez]

I hate when when people use rattle guns carelessly... Especially if it's a tyre shop. They should be frikken pro's! When I go get my dads blowtorch I planned on crabbing the shock freeze stuff too That shits awesome! But I have only ever used it on small rusted bolts.