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98 Sub OB 2.5 crank bolt removal direction


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Just verifying the crank pully bolt removal thread direction. I would assume the direction is a CCW to remove, I don't want to assume though.

 

On my 1st car some bone head broke the bolt off and cracked the pully. To sell the car he rewelded the pully back on. after 2 days of driving the weld broke and I needed a new engine.

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It's standard threads.

 

If you don't have the correct harmonic balancer tool you can cheat by putting your breaker bar over by the battery tray and hitting the key to get it loose.

 

Of course then you gotta worry about how to torgue the thing tight when re-installing.

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If you're lucky. I've taken to trying them while still on the car. So that I can use the breaker bar trick if necessary.

 

I recently broke down and purchased the IR 2131QT 1/2" impact that was on sale at Sears for 149. They had been going for 120 or so USED on Ebay. My main reason for getting it was that it has 600 ft/lb in reverse. Occasionally none of my 3 impacts will remove that bolt so I had to go borrow someone else's gun. I don't like to borrow tools.

 

Good luck with the removel - but yea - standard threads.

 

I have trouble with about 1 in 10 it seems.

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If you're lucky. I've taken to trying them while still on the car. So that I can use the breaker bar trick if necessary.

 

I recently broke down and purchased the IR 2131QT 1/2" impact that was on sale at Sears for 149. They had been going for 120 or so USED on Ebay. My main reason for getting it was that it has 600 ft/lb in reverse. Occasionally none of my 3 impacts will remove that bolt so I had to go borrow someone else's gun. I don't like to borrow tools.

 

Good luck with the removel - but yea - standard threads.

 

I have trouble with about 1 in 10 it seems.

 

The bolt came off using the 22mm with a 1/2" drive and a 3/4" x 2' blk pipe cheeter bar. The pully came off by rocking it by hand (I was lucky).

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