Aron:
When I removed the crank pulley from my MGB, I just put a short piece of pipe
over the handle of my breaker bar, so the end rested on the garage floor. Then
I jumped into the car and cranked the engine over on the starter for half a
second (coil wire removed, so the engine wouldn't fire up). It popped right
off. Getting it torqued up when I put it back on was the real problem. An air
driven impact wrench is probably the way to go.
Regards,
Jerry Causey
'67 MGB GT
> I need to remove the big crank pully nut on my '78 Midget. When I try
> the way that should work, putting the car in gear with the wife on the
> brakes, I end up overpowering the clutch and rotating the engine anyway.
> I need some other way to prevent the engine from rotating, any ideas?
>
> I thought of the old rope in the cylinder trick, where you remove a
> spark plug and push in a bunch of rope- rotate the engine untill it
> compresses the rope and locks up, but it seems that that might be hard
> on the bearings as I'm using a breaker bar with an extention, probably
> generating 300 ft.lbs+ at the nut. Should I remove the starter and try
> to jam something against the ring gear?
> Is there a easy way that I'm not seeing?
> -Aron Travis-
> "always in a automotive frenzy"
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