nut removal

["Wendy Wood/Carson Damm" <dammwood@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

This works but realize the risks too. If everything doesn't go well
something has to give and that will be the starter mount on the
bellhouseing. I have seen the aftermath of this when somebody brought a car
in that had tried to start it while it was in gear and the hand brake was
on. The starter had snapped off and taken a chunk of bellhousing with it,
the nuts were still tight even.

Carson Damm
Ft. McMurray
Canada

<After eyeballing it, he takes a 36mm socket and a metre long breaker bar
<puts it on the crankshaft pulley nut, jam the other end of the bar onto
the
<left end of the engine bay, disconnect the coil lead, "everyone stand
back!"
<and cranks the engine.  Once - the engine painfully (for me) torques on it
<mounts , twice (I am more fascinated than scared at this point) and the
bar
<drops off.  It off, he declares.

<Happily, I continue the work.  It builds confidence when you know that
<someone is watching over you.  Anyone bold enough to try?

Yup, scary, but it works well! I couldn't get the nut off any other way.

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