Alternator Overdrive Pulley Install Tool
Alternator Overdrive Pulley Install Tool Well I did a lot of digging around while trying to get my ASP Alternator Overdrive Pulley on and came up with a lot of folks saying IMPACT gun. Didn't have a compressor or an impact gun and by the time I learned I should have used one the radiator was back in making it impossible.
This worked very well in tight spaces and got the pulley on there nice and tight.
- 1 x 24mm short socket (el' cheapo from PepBoys $3)
- 1 x 3/4" Grade 8 Nut (from Lowes < $1)
- Magna Steel or something of the like 2.50
- T-50 Torx bit about 3" long (see picture)
I have no welder as I assume most people don't so I just used the Magna steel around the nut and socket to create my own install tool. Just slip the torx bit through it all and with a breaker bar, vise-grips etc. and a wrench of some sort you can keep the alt. from spinning while tighning that nut down.
It may have been easier to remove the alternator but after doing a H/C swap I was done ripping things out. This worked great with all the components in the car.
Just thought I'd post in case anyone else had the same issue (or was too lazy to pull the alternator and have someone hit it with an impact gun
)
This worked very well in tight spaces and got the pulley on there nice and tight.
- 1 x 24mm short socket (el' cheapo from PepBoys $3)
- 1 x 3/4" Grade 8 Nut (from Lowes < $1)
- Magna Steel or something of the like 2.50
- T-50 Torx bit about 3" long (see picture)
I have no welder as I assume most people don't so I just used the Magna steel around the nut and socket to create my own install tool. Just slip the torx bit through it all and with a breaker bar, vise-grips etc. and a wrench of some sort you can keep the alt. from spinning while tighning that nut down.
It may have been easier to remove the alternator but after doing a H/C swap I was done ripping things out. This worked great with all the components in the car.
Just thought I'd post in case anyone else had the same issue (or was too lazy to pull the alternator and have someone hit it with an impact gun
) 
couldn't get a wrench on it and almost couldn't get a socket on it either. Not to mention the post spins freely so I didn't see any other way to tighten it without an impact gun/ compressor. That would have been my first choice.
just didn't feel like either moving the radiator again, or removing the alt to take it to a shop. I think it was more a mental that stood between me and a new H/C install was one nut.
