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Jun 27, 2010 | 12:45 PM

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t/afrom504

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I gave up on it after an hour or so!!! Now today Im gonna get my neighbor to help me out. Man I hope this goes well because I need the car so I can make it to work tonight!!!

Jun 27, 2010 | 05:18 PM

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Update: I tried loosening the bolts to the pulley so I can replace it but the hub itself moves just a little bit. But damn those bolts are on tight as hell!!! I sprayed some liquid wrench on the bolts, let it sit for a few minutes, tried loosening them again to no avail. Is there anything else I can do to get the bolts off, because its a pain in the ***?!

As I'm sure you're already aware, the hub shouldn't be moving on the snout of the crank at all. First, make sure the bolt that holds the hub in place is indeed tight. Secondly, even if you get the pulley off, with the hub rocking, you'll still have an issue that needs to be attended to. Anyway, the 3 bolts shouldn't be all that tight, that a regular 14" breaker bar shouldn't be able to getthem loose.

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I gave up on it after an hour or so!!! Now today I'm gonna get my neighbor to help me out. Man I hope this goes well because I need the car so I can make it to work tonight!!!

I hope you got it done, cause having to drive a wounded car to work, or thrashing under a tight schedule, is a real bummer. However, if you didn't get them loose yet, because working under the car can be a pain, a "last-ditched" effort might be to remove the pulley and hub as one unit, then work on it off the car. An impact gun, if you have access to air tools, will pop those bolts off w/o any problem.