Re: IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal

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The safest way it to install a wedge shaped piece of wood between the flywheel and bell housing forcing it in far enough to hold in place then take a breaker bar and or cheater bar extension and remove the bolt.  The piece of wood can then be removed and the job finished.  
---- smoorehouse@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote: 
> 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
> 
> ----- Original Message -----
> 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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