Re: [alfa] Breaker bar vs. impact wrench

[f.rastinejad@xxxxxxx]

John Hertzman wrote:
Before there was an Alfa Digest spinoff Michael Valant mentioned, in the 
italian-cars-digest V2 #627, using a chain wrench around the crank pulley in 
conjunction with a breaker-bar on the nut. Offhand that offers an appealing 
symmetry, as well as some real conveniences for the operator.

I tried this method a few years back.  Unfortunately, I found it necessary to strike the breaker bar with a hammer and that broke a chunk out of the pulley.  The Alfetta type pulleys are thicker and sturdier, but I was working on a '74 with a thin pulley.  Those pulleys are kind of fragile, and I will not try to hold them with a chain wrench again.  -Farzan


> After citing Fred's 1981 procedure for undoing the cranknut with a breaker bar 
> and improvised flywheel lock, it is only fair to note that in 1998 (ad-V5-#405) 
> he wrote "If you don't have a hefty air driven impact wrench, or the tool to 
> hold the flywheel, or the engine stand to firmly hold the engine, you won't get 
> that nut off." Fred was fairly pragmatic  what works,works, and there is often 
> more than one way to skin a cat  and in his later, pre-Florida years lived in 
> the boonies far from tool-rental civilization; and I don't remember seeing an 
> air compressor or impact wrench in his four-car-with-lift garage, but that may 
> be just memoryfade. He didn't hesitate to couple improvisation ("Grind an old 
> screwdriver") with by-the-book rigor ("do not try to install the new seal 
> without the proper Alfa tool"). For my part,I'm glad I have a proper Alfa 
> ringgear locker, and equally glad to know I don't need one. 
> 
> Before there was an Alfa Digest spinoff Michael Valant mentioned, in the 
> italian-cars-digest V2 #627, using a chain wrench around the crank pulley in 
> conjunction with a breaker-bar on the nut. Offhand that offers an appealing 
> symmetry, as well as some real conveniences for the operator.
> 
> John H.
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