Having the pleasure of someone else's car in my garage, engine sitting on the floor in pieces, I found myself needing to remove the crankshaft pulley(stock style) from a stock 1600 engine. I've never had to do this job on a stock pulley before since I run one of the aluminum jobbies. But the gal I'm helping assured me that she had bought the proper tool to pull the stock pulley off the engine. She bought this one:
This puller, which I see sold by several vendors, is a first rate piece of crap. The stock pulley has slots cut in the front near the center so that you can remove it from the engine without destroying it. This style puller grabs on the outer rim of the pulley. I suggested we not even bother trying it, but the gal wanted to change the tinware behind the pulley so I relented and agreed to try this wonder tool out. And as I began to tighten down the center bolt I watched the pulley begin to deform, like magic, right in front of my eyes. Doesn't damage the pulley, according to Chirco. BS according to me. The pulley never did come off the crank at all.
Having already ruined the stock pulley I made my own puller out of a couple of bolts and washers through the factory slots in the pulley and the center section of a harbor freight puller. A few whaps on the center screw of my homebrew puller with the impact wrench and the pulley walked right off of the crank without a fight. I should have done that in the first place, but hindsight is always 20/20.
Does anyone sell the -correct- puller for the stock crankshaft pulley that fits into the slots near the hub? How about a picture of one?
Chris