Crankshaft Pulley will NOT come off
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I found that the 3-arm puller was difficult to use. So I drilled and tapped my hub with three bolt holes so that a traditional balancer puller like this one can be used. It works SO much better than the jaw puller. And since the hub is aluminum it's very easy to drill and tap the holes.
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Did you try putting a BIG allen head cap screw into the hole and centering your puller rod in the hex head of the cap screw? You need to put a couple of large flat washers under the head of the cap screw. Just be sure the washers are slightly smaller in diameter than the OD of the crank. This works quite well because the puller rod becomes self-centering when it bucks up against the allen head cap screw. If your pulley requires that much force to remove your doing something wrong. It's an interference fit, but it's not that tight of a fit. The only job it does is spin the A/C comp., water pump, power steering pump and alt. Not exactly high torque loads. The crank pulley bolt should be a lot harder to remove than the pulley itself so check your work very closely if the pulley is giving you more trouble than the bolt did.
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Originally Posted by ninobrn99
the problem i was having is when i would go to tighten the puller, the center bolt would rotate downward and eventually coming off of the bolt head
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Originally Posted by ninobrn99
the problem i was having is when i would go to tighten the puller, the center bolt would rotate downward and eventually coming off of the bolt head
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Originally Posted by ninobrn99
the problem i was having is when i would go to tighten the puller, the center bolt would rotate downward and eventually coming off of the bolt head