I bought an L32 from a local parts reseller. It didn't come with a flywheel, and I'm having a heck of a time trying to figure out a way to get the bolt off of the harmonic balancer so I can get a puller on it to get the pulley off. Anybody have any suggestions?

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IIRC you have to use a special puller on it.

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I'm not even to the part where I get to pull the pulley off yet. I have to stop the part that holds the flywheel from spinning in order to be able to get the bolt out.

Here's a pic of where my problem is:


A local guy suggested bolting a flat metal rod to the bolts in there and using that to keep it from spinning which should work

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You're going to have to figure out how to keep the crank from spinning, then either hit it with an impact gun and hope for the best, or use a 5 ft cheater bar to break it loose

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This guy had the same idea, and designed a tool to tackle the problem: Crank Sensor - some other tactics

You need to use an impact gun. A break over bar...that's like pushing rope if its never been removed before. Your trying to remove 111 ft. lbs. + like 76* its a chore.

It will turn a little, but the impact gun WILL win and the bolt will unscrew. It just takes some hammering time, pausing to let the compressor catch up, and refill with air/pressure.

I have never needed to hold the flywheel using an impact gun. Even to put them on.

It also helps to have spark plugs in the heads too...compression helps you out a lot.

~F~

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I had to do this during my cam install/ top swap. You need to jam a big flat head screw driver in the flywheel and than than use a biggggg breaker bar (had a peice of pipe on my breaker bar) and while my friend held the screw driver than I cranked it and the bolt broke loose very easily. I have a massive impact gun and it did not work at all. Than you need to use a cat claw puller to get the balancer off. I had to use mine in a backwards fashion because autozone gave me the wrong one. GL

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