Removing Harmonic Balancer But .........

[INFRNT]

Hi All,

Need to remove harmonic balancer mmm,

Ok Ive tryed cranking if with the engine bar against the ground no luck,

Tried with my ratchet gun increased the air pressure from my air compressor no luck,

I didnt have the car in gear 4 or any gear for that matter (will retry with car in gear also with a bigger battery more cca) but i dont have a tailshaft to connect to to the diff to give more resistance for the crank.

If someone has applied lock tight to the bolt, will it need to be heated to remove??

Will only locking the gearbox inplace create enough resistance to break the seal that this stupid bolt is in lol

or will i have to wait for the till i get the one piece tailshaft back!?

Thanks all

Peter

[brtnrt]

Hello Peter,

I'm in the process of changing my son's timing belt tonight on his 1989 R32 GTS RB20 manual. I put the car in 4th gear , handbrake on . Used a 27mm socket and breaker bar. It come undown quite easily. So yes I think you will have to positely lock the engine somehow. I did read an article where this guy wrapped a peice of twine around the crank pulley and the alternator pulley. I'll see if I can find the picture. It may be of some help. I then tapped out the two 6mm bolt holes in the pulley and used a puller to remove it.

Regards

Brian

[brtnrt]

Hello Peter,

See if you can find this web page

Cambelt change on a R33 GTS-t - by Bob Owen

It has the picture I was talking about

Regards

Brian

[brtnrt]

Hi again

Found the web site

http://www.skylinegts.co.uk/index.htm

Then go to service and maintain first choice on the top of the page - fiiting a new cambelt to R33

Hope this helps

Cheers

Edited September 23, 2007 by brtnrt

[axe s]

Hi, u should be locking the flywheel...

Take off the starter motor, and put the flywheel lock in (if u don't have one use a large screw driver, put it in the flywheels teeth, when u start to undo it, it'll lock in) <-- that's how i did it

[INFRNT]

Hi,

Thanks guys i read the uk site today and also looked at dumpin the sump to lock the crank with timber ill do all in the most easiest way lol and leave the sump for last i never thought of lockin the flywheel cheers for that and for both you replyin so fast need someone to make a sticky on this with all opitions from hardest to easiest not just the easiest way lol

Again thanks heaps

Peter

Edited September 23, 2007 by INFRNT