IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal

["mike and linda sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

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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