5th gear,take up the slack, large breaker bar on nut or scaffold pole over ratchet, and pull!! Whatever, I def wouldn't crank over the engine!!! Recipe for disaster and blood. Ensure you plus-gas it for a long while or similar penetrant, pref for a few days
you dont necesarily need to remove the big nut to get the pulley off in order to change the cam belt. I think that there are other methods. my last belt change was done by the nice people at Sam Goodwins, and I'm sure that it was changed without removing the crank pulley. Have you done a search on here or the web for alternative methods on changing teh cam belt?
If the sumps off chock it against crankcase wall with a piece of wood (wrapped in clingfilm so no splinters get lost)
Worked for me on many many engines, cant see why it wouldn't work on a 5.
As said you don't need to take off the belt unless you are doing the waterpump at the same time. You could use the split belt method if its just the belt your doing.
?15 1/2" bar from machine mart, soaked in wd40 after a small ammount of heat. 5th gear and handbrake on, came off easy. Had been trying with a shorter bar for two nights with no luck. Right tool to do the job helps everytime.
£15 1/2" bar from machine mart, soaked in wd40 after a small ammount of heat. 5th gear and handbrake on, came off easy. Had been trying with a shorter bar for two nights with no luck. Right tool to do the job helps everytime.
I've given up with manual labour on mine, calling in the big guns!
Impact gun that is!
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