If you use the torch you are going to have to buy a new seal for the crank !
Had a buddy of mine do this on a Chevy. Melted that puppy !
-----Original Message-----
From: John Cave [mailto:cavej@mcmaster.ca]
Sent: Monday, August 14, 2000 7:46 AM
To: Bernard Christian-Woodruff; Spitfire List
Subject: Re: Advice on removing Pulley Nut
Try heat you will need an oxy-accetelyne set , best if you can get someone
who has experience using a welding set , heat the nut in just one spot
untill
it is red ,you should then be able to get it off .Be careful the nut is
going
to be very hot,and take all the precautions needed for an open flame around
gasoline,fire extinguisher,escape route,insurance policy etc..
This was the only way i could get the nut undone on my engine when i
rebuilt
it this year, one advantage i had was the engine was out the car.It will
work but be careful.
good luck John Cave
Bernard Christian-Woodruff wrote:
> Please Help!
>
> During my last trip over to England to the TSSC Annual meeting at
> Stafford, my engine developed a rather worrying rattle coming from the
> front of the engine. My guess is that the timing chain tensioner has
> disintegrated..... So, an easy job - remove the radiator, remove fan
> belt, remove pulley nut....STOP.
>
> How on earth do you remove a nut of that size attached to something that
> moves? I contacted John Kipping and bought a new pulley nut and using
> that I bought a large socket. But alas, the nut on my car is ~46mm where
> as my new nut and socket is ~44mm.
>
> So, I hit it with a chisel, I pulled it with an oil fitler remover (chain
> variety), I have slapped it, swore at it, and just sat and watched it
> using the power of the mind to get it to move. But it remains put and my
> car sits in the garage during the best weather in the WHOLE year.
>
> In fact when putting a lot of force on it, the engine would rather turn
> and the car starts to reverse into the garage in spite of the fact that
> the handbrake is on.....
>
> AARRRGGGHHHHH!
>
> Can anyone suggest anything????
>
> Thanks in advance!
>
> Bernard Christian-Woodruff
> '69 MkIII US Spec
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