MacGyverGTP

Sounds like a dumb question, but I am putting a hell of a lot of force on that center bolt.
I bought a $25 pulley tool because they said it makes it a 5 minute job...

However, I have been in the garage for the past 40 minutes trying to get the #$* damn thing off.
Is it lefty loosey?

Any tricks? Advise? I feel like I am going to break something.

Thanks!

Meangreen1200

It's just very tight, you may need to use a breaker bar.

MacGyverGTP

Can you beleive I am still working on it... Broke several things trying to find a make-shift breaker bar...
Amazing how "on" this thing is...

Oh, F-it!!!
It beat me... I'll have a shop do it.

MacGyverGTP

Well, I FINALLY GOT IT!!!
Big hint for future people trying this...
Use a nice big allen wrench for the bolt.
Set something like a Torque wrench across the path of the allen wrench.
I set it from the radiator to the valve covers.
This makes it so the Allen wrench is pressed up against whatever you use and can not move.
Then use all your force moving the Pulley wrench and not the Allen wrench.

Another way of saying this is, turn the pulley and make the pulley bolt stationary.
Hope this makes sense.

Remember when you are moving the pulley to go the opposite of "Lefty Loosey" this will cause the stationary bolt to turn the right direction.

Thanks for the help Meangreen1200! I started to second guess that damn bolt!

zkiller

It takes me three minutes to change the pulley. You are doing it bazackwards.
You need someone else to hold the pulley toolstationary foryou., keeping the pulley from turning. Dont turn the pulley with the tool- you turn the allen bolt using a torque wrench with a good allen key socket (Snap-on)to loosenit is (90 Lbs I think. )
Dont use the pulley tool to turn the pulley you may wear or bend the pins.
You also need to tighten it with a torque wrench so you have the proper torque on the bolt.
NOTE**** You have to wipe off any oil from the face of the pulley and the face of thesurface it meets as friction is what holds the pulley in place as you tighten the allen bolt. (The pulley is not keyed)

Meangreen1200

It gets easy after you do it a few times.

Tony407

Sorry to bring up a 3-year old thread. Confirming that the bolt needs to be torqued to 90 ft lbs? Thanks.

Tony

Simon1

It just needs to be tight, hand tight.

If you have the tool from KB and the correct size allen wrench, i can do it by myself.

I put tape on my pulley tool so it doesn't scratch the pulley. I put rotate the pulley until it is almost level, insert the allen wrench to where there is only an inch or so between the pulley tool and wrench and squeeze the two together like a pair of scissors.

Use leverage, not muscle.

It works good. I just leave my 15 psi pulley on there all of the time.

Simon1

If you put it on at 90 foot lbs you won't get it off. Handtight, pretty snug, but hand tight.