Good grief that was tight!!

Mrcheerful · 2009-10-10T22:43:30+00:00

My wife's GS300 Lexus was due for its first cambelt and plugs (63k), so today was the day, strip off the extraneous stuff, air gun on the crank pulley, absolutely solid. Turn up the air to flat out, still no go. Lock the flywheel, extra tube on the breaker bar, still no joy. So I made a special holder for the pulley, still no joy with half inch breaker bar, so dug out the 3 quarter set, and with a tube on the big breaker bar and shaking with the effort at long last the bolt creaked and moved. Turns out this is a common problem, from new they use a load of loctite and do the bolt up to 325nm. Even with the bolt out the pulley was solid on the crank, luckily I could modify the holding tool to turn it into a puller. 9 hours start to finish, a bleeding long time, about 6 hours too many!!

Oct 10, 2009 21 Replies

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Duncan Wood 16 years ago

A slogging spanner.

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Mungo "Two Sheds" Toadfoot 16 years ago

How much fun would *that* have been?!

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