HELP! How do you take off the crank pulley?

[fiznat]

working on my spare KA24DE right now in the garage and we're trying to take the head off... turns out that in order to take it off, you need the timing chains off, which requires you remove the lower timing cover which requires you to remove the main crank pulley. We got the big bolt out of the middle of it and have loosened all the lower timing cover bolts, but for some reason the pulley just wont come off.. anyone know how to do this??

QUICK! we're stuck right now and we wanted to get this done tonight!

[MikeMurphy]

http://www.240sx.org/faq/articles/pullys.htm

The step is mentioned in that a few times IIRC.

[MikeMurphy]

I read through it again and it doesent say much about getting the thing off, only the bolt. Maybe run some WD in there for awhile and give it another pull.

[Nathan]

Haha, I told him whats up on IM, lets see if he comes back successful If not...we ALL get to mock and make fun of the nincompoop!

[fiznat]

lol well.... mock and make-fun-of away, cause we didnt do it.

..actually we decided to take the head off just by removing the cams and taking the upper chain off (instead of messing with that damn crank which will NOT come off, even with PB Blaster and a crowbar..), but turns out I dont have any sockets or wrenches big enough to fit those bolts! ...arruugh off to the hardware store it is!

[[Zero-S]]

umm...fiz, go to autozone, they have a tool made especially for getting the crank pulley off...(just rent it)

[Drill_Sergeant]

puller

[Hijacker]

two words. Pully Puller. You'll probably need one that hooks around the lip of the crank pully. Thread the crank bolt back in a few turns, mount the puller onto that and then latch the puller handles around the lip of the pulley. Should pop off with little effort.

[[Zero-S]]

Yeah I didn't want to sound stupid and say crank puller puller, but alright.

[JimLecesse]

hey what size is the crank pulley bolt, i need to go buy a socket

[Nathan]

27mm for that crank pulley bolt. All you puller guys are just NO fun, I used a crowbar Yes, I am lazy enough I didn't want to drive to autozone...sad isn't it? I'm just messing with you fizzy, cant fault you for not having a socket!

[[Zero-S]]

I've had bad experiences with crowbars+engines. It usually = replacement parts...

[Charlie240sxt]

Yea it does.....but it gets it off:ylsuper :ylsuper :ylsuper

[Hijacker]

I've had bad experiences with crowbars+engines. It usually = replacement parts...

I got lucky on my last bout with the crank pully. I tried the prybar method and knocked a small piece of the larger pully's lip off. I think it's insignificant enough that it hasn't thrown the balance off. I guess we'll see when I throw something in 10,000 miles though.