Can the crank pulley be removed from the engine, with the engine in situ etc..???

Trying to fit a set of pulleys, and even with the car in gear, wheels blocked up, and someone holding the brakes on, I cant undo the nut holding the pulley on!!

Is it a reversed thread etc, or is there a way of holding the engine by way of pinning the flywheel etc without too much dismantling??

 

Put the car in 4th gear and get a knucle bar on it. You may need to get more leverage - you can use a trolley jack handle or something similar. It is not reverse thread, but they do get very very tight.

 

the thread is not reversed.. you need a bigger wrench!! I used a nice long torque wrench.

I put the car is 5th and handbrake on and it came undone with a lot of pressure.

The crank pulley on mine then need a puller to get off the end of the crank though btw!

 

I am using a torque wrench on it at the mo, but just end up turning the engine over til I run out of movement (ie the wrench goes from the battery, across to the abs module!) and of course, as I let it go, the engine turns back over to where I started!! I need to hold it where it is, so I can get another go at it with the wrench.

 

What about taking the rad out so you can get a knocker gun on it?

 

you can lock the flywheel with a bit of angle iron by removing the starter motor but a bit of a pain to just get one bolt undone.

 

Right, me being a numptie, thought using a low gear would have been better, so tried 5th gear, Bang straight away it came undone!! Thanks guys, sorry to waste your time on something so simple

I might be back soon though to ask Simon how he got his pulley off the shaft sure it will be OK though, my car's not as old as the hills like his

 

lol.. oi you cheeky ******!

I hadn't thought about getting the crank pulley off on mine, wife told her dad I was changing it at the weekend and he turned up with a couple of pullers.. said thanks and thought "why would I need one of them?" sure enough.. lol I needed one..

not much use to you but some pretty pictures

http://jollygreenmonster.fotopic.net/p5260983.html

http://jollygreenmonster.fotopic.net/p5260984.html

Simon

 

just dont ask simon how to remove cam pulleys

 

lol.. I thought the extra material removed would help reduce spun weight?!

http://jollygreenmonster.fotopic.net/p5252335.html

You ba5tard!

Simon..

 

pitty your poor torque wrench!

goto halfrauds or similar and get a decent breaker bar (professional range one is only about £12). they are dead handy for undoing wheel bolts etc and can take the strain of additional leverage. and being helfords pro if it breaks take it back

 

I disagree it puts any undue stress on the torque wrench.. if it is one of the old one that relies on the shaft bending to display the torque then yes it will damage the calibration etc.. but I am sure Pickle hasn't got one of those old monsters? even I have a modern one. lol

On mine the torque is reached and the shaft contacts and puts all pressure directly onto the end of the wrench (where the socket goes on) therefore the only stress put on the torque calibrated mechinism is the torque it is set to at the time.. imho.

 

Ha, pinched the Torque wrench from work last night so I don't care if I f*** it
All done now, no dramas with getting the pulley from the shaft

Thanks guys, what I thought was going to be a nightmare, turned into a simple 1hr max job! (Only hope I've tensioned the belts up correct!)

 

I think we need a picture to see how she looks?

 

I am still waiting for the belt cover/battery cover etc to come back after I got SPEC-R to re-polish them up, so will pick them up in a bit, then will take a couple of pics to post up.

 

www.drapertools.com/draper/external/34964ins.pdf

 

OK then here are some pics.
Pulleys


Pulleys with Belt Cover


Engine bay shot

 

nice you tart

 

shouldnt be using a torque wrench like that IMHO

 

mine looks nothing like that draper one but I guess it wasn't really meant to be used for this.. will try and use mine less

 

Pickle, where did you get the Insulation from for the intercooler pipework? Part number?

Engine bay looks good

Steven

 

Steven, its only the heatwrap insulation that I got from www.merlinmotorsport.co.uk bought it as a sheet large enough, then wrapped it round the pipework, and secured with sticky velcro! I couldn't get anything that was 3" or larger diammeter.

 

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