Re: IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal

Im no expert but from my own experience I used an newmatic impact gun and it did the trick but I started by soaking it with penetrating oil and I think I remember installing a bolt on the torque plate or flywheel that hit the housing stopping it from rotating I did this over 15 years ago but Im pretty sure Im remembering it properly

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From: mike and linda sutton <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wednesday, January 23, 2008 21:42
Subject: IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal
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> Ive gritted my teeth on this one for a few days, thinking " yeah
> that might
> work ok....." but personally I dont think Id use the starter
> motor to break
> the balancer bolt loose. Today someone posted the same
> reason, the teeth on
> the ring gear that are on the torque converter might not like
> that. They
> probably wouldnt break, but if it did break a gear tooth
> off of the ring
> gear youre looking at 10 times the work in comparison to
> something as simple
> as a timing cover on a big block Mopar. The starter itself
> wouldnt be much
> of an issue, but that ring gear means a transmission or engine
> removal, or
> at least splitting the trans from the engine and moving it back
> a few
> inches.
>
> Having owned and removed more small and big block mopar timing
> chains than I
> care to remember, I finally took an old crank pulley and welded
> a steel bar
> about 2 ft long across it. I bolt that pulley on the balancer,
> let the steel
> bar rotate with the crank till it hits the frame rail and that
> holds the
> crank from turning. Easier than fighting with trying to hold the
> ring gear,
> works when you dont have an impact wrench available and is
> pretty hard to
> break anything with this.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mikey
>
>
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