How do I get out the harmonic balancer bolt from hell !!!!!!
 

Yeah Ive had my car boosted for two weeks now. BUt ive had a rattle and just a small water leak coming from my oil pump and water pump area since before I installed the turbo. Ive got new parts ready to put on and a Beefy head gasket from LSD.

I can't do any of it though until I get the harmonic balancer bolt off. Ive had it at midas and their impact wouldn't move it we tryed for about 20 minutes my freind works their so its cool They let me come back and use every tool they had to take it off but it didn't work.

Then I took it to a tire place up the street their imact and compressor were way stronger then at Midas but we still couldn't get it off. I have an extra bolt so I'm thinking about drilling the old one out but I really don't want to risk tearing up the thread in my crank. Any Idea's would be appriciated

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For those really stubborn nuts/bolts, i put a 4 ft. pipe on the end of a 1/2 drive rachet, it wins every time, spray the hell out of it with pb blaster although it prolly wont help much.

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go to a rental place, and ask for a 1" impat gun made for semi's.

there like some 800-1000 ft lbs of trq,

yo might brake the crank if it's really stuck, but at that point..you were screwd any how,

you might try some heat on the end of the crank,

or the best pen. lube i've found yet, MOPAR rust penatrent, it's like 15 $ a bottle but works so well, let it soak over night, or a few nights

try all of them at once, and your sure to break some thing cool !! ;D ;D

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yea see if there are any semi truck shops anywhere near you, they will definitly have a strong enough impact to get it off.

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Damn I'll keep that semi truck idea in mind...

I've broke sockets/ratchets trying to get the one off my car. It also made the flywheel eat the tool I had wedged in it. After a thicker tool and a 6ft pole combined with another 1/2" ratchet and beefy socket, and only one small beefy extension...it finally came off. Scared me at first because it just SNAPPED and sounded like a broken head or stripped bolt.

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BlackSi (Beau) turned me onto the idea of heating it up. I now use one of those MAPP Gas torches from HD, and heat up the bolt and dampner, and then hit it with my Sears 1/2" Impact at about 120psi. Comes right off.

Good luck!

Craig

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heat that bitch up and bust it off with the impact.....if not a jackhammer will always do the trick....

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ya i couldnt get that bolt off either so my friends dad heated it up with the oxy acy torch and threw some ice on the bolt and got it off. it was TIIIIGHT

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MAC sells a 1000ft/lb 1/2" impact. The main problem they are probably tunning in to is line loss. Build a T-fitting to feed the impact with 2 air hoses, bout $5 in parts from home depot. If that doesn't work, you can hit the edge of the bolt with an air hammer, or find a bigger impact. One of the guys where I work has a 3/4" fed by twin air lines, it will loosen or snap anything you can find on a Honda.

The semi idea isn't so bad though. If you drop a tech at a semi service center $5-10 they'd probably pop it off for you. You don't have to have the wheel off to reach it so it would only take them 30 seconds, then you could torque it to sprc and drive home.

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take a 'strap wrench' and wrap that bitch around the crank pully and get someone with a huge breaker bar. its a 2 person job. dont loose that little key that comes out either...