Lefty loosey...right?

[supraguy@aol]

Yes, I did- Mr. 'I drive an 80's car'. You gots a problem with traveling back in time? I hope not.

 

[whitemike]

Yes, I did- Mr. 'I drive an 80's car'. You gots a problem with traveling back in time? I hope not.

Are you being serious? I can't tell.. and I only have a problem going back in time when I'm not going 80-88mph's

 

[paradox616]

lefty loosey is right. and yes 160 ft-lbs is not enough. i used an electric impact gun. held on it for about 10-15 seconds and it cranked free. iirc its torqued on to like 195ft-lbs so ya lol
try the starter method.

I've mangled big breaker bar against the ground with the starter method on my daily, make sure you pull the EFI fuse, last thing you want is the motor starting with the balancer loose....

on my supra i put the car in gear to lock the crankshaft and undid the bolt with a big breaker bar with a pipe on it, you can't do this on a auto.

 

[mk3-4-me]

i had to heat mine up with a plasma torch till it was red hot before i could loosen it with a torque wrench.... those things get super tight dude...

 

[shaeff]

It must be on a stand if he's use an impact gun...

not really, just remove the rad.

This.

Umm, wow some people need to reread the original post. He never mentioned the ft-lbs used. He said he used 160 psi on the impact gun. If it's a good gun of decent size it could be a considerable amount of torque, then again if it was a Walmart special, it might not even do 100 ft-lbs.

160psi on a decent impact gun is really cranking. Either A) get a new impact gun, or B) you have the world's strongest crank pulley bolt.

i had to heat mine up with a plasma torch till it was red hot before i could loosen it with a torque wrench.... those things get super tight dude...

Hopefully you replaced that bolt and damper?

 

[supramk3speed]

The motor is in the car and the impact gun wasn't a peace o' crap walmart 125 ft lbs of torque special (the first one i used was a harbor frieght special!), but i have had no luck. Im going to try the starter method, i hope it works! I hope i haven't removed anything that will keep it from "starting". I was wondering, will it move the crank pulley quick enough to lose TDC to a large extent?

 

[Kevin]

you can always move everything back to tdc

 

[supramk3speed]

you can always move everything back to tdc

Yeah i know, but im afraid i will be on the wrong stroke when i put it back together because i have the belt off of the cam gears.

 

[Kevin]

if the cam gears are also reset to tdc and the crank is tdc you wont be on the wrong stroke. make sure the #1 piston is all the way up (check in the spark plug hole)

 

[supramk3speed]

if the cam gears are also reset to tdc and the crank is tdc you wont be on the wrong stroke. make sure the #1 piston is all the way up (check in the spark plug hole)

Oh! okay. Thanks for the help:icon_bigg