Here is the situation, tearing down your engine having a great time and then you find yourself needing to remove the crank pulley with the engine out of the car and you've already removed your timing belt. Oh no!
You could buy the crank pulley holder tool, or make one if you have the available material or you could use what you have on hand. Your timing belt (Your replacing it right?)
I took this one from my earlier Subaru days.
Take the timing belt and loop it over the crank pulley and at the bottom attach a set of vice grips to hold it in place. You can then loop it upwards over the engine mount and back down onto itself and once again attach another set of vice grips across both. This in turn makes it pull on itself locking the crank pulley in place allowing you to simply use a breaker bar or ratchet to remove the crank pulley.
For obvious reasons do NOT reuse your timing belt after this, but since your tearing your engine down you are replacing it anyway! Photos of it setup to below
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Not shown is if you still have your head on you can also wrap it around a cam gear, take up the slack underneath with the second set of vice grips instead. Either way works like a charm.
You could buy the crank pulley holder tool, or make one if you have the available material or you could use what you have on hand. Your timing belt (Your replacing it right?)
I took this one from my earlier Subaru days.
Take the timing belt and loop it over the crank pulley and at the bottom attach a set of vice grips to hold it in place. You can then loop it upwards over the engine mount and back down onto itself and once again attach another set of vice grips across both. This in turn makes it pull on itself locking the crank pulley in place allowing you to simply use a breaker bar or ratchet to remove the crank pulley.
For obvious reasons do NOT reuse your timing belt after this, but since your tearing your engine down you are replacing it anyway! Photos of it setup to below
.Not shown is if you still have your head on you can also wrap it around a cam gear, take up the slack underneath with the second set of vice grips instead. Either way works like a charm.
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