Re: IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal

["Rob van der Es" <r.vdes@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Thanks a lot Mike!

The risk of breaking a teeth on the ring gear is must be seriously taken 
into consideration I think.
I would be a real disaster if that happens, cause no parts for a 1960 
Imperial are available in my country rightaway.
I don't have a lift available in my garage to remove the gearbox if that 
happpens...so I would be really in problems then.

Your method of using an old crankshaft pulley (with offset bolt pattern, 
cause it is a 1960 engine) sounds a lot safer!
Now I only have to find me the correct pulley and someone that can weld a 
metal bar across it :)

Thanks,

Robert
----- Original Message ----- 
From: "mike and linda sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Thursday, January 24, 2008 3:41 AM
Subject: IML: harmonic balancer bolt removal


> Ive gritted my teeth on this one for a few days, thinking " yeah that 
> might work ok....." but personally I dont think Id use the starter motor 
> to break the balancer bolt loose. Today someone posted the same reason, 
> the teeth on the ring gear that are on the torque converter might not like 
> that.  They probably wouldnt break,  but if it did break a gear tooth off 
> of the ring gear youre looking at 10 times the work in comparison to 
> something as simple as a timing cover on a big block Mopar.  The starter 
> itself wouldnt be much of an issue, but that ring gear means a 
> transmission or engine removal, or at least splitting the trans from the 
> engine and moving it back a few inches.
>
> Having owned and removed more small and big block mopar timing chains than 
> I care to remember, I finally took an old crank pulley and welded a steel 
> bar about 2 ft long across it. I bolt that pulley on the balancer, let the 
> steel bar rotate with the crank till it hits the frame rail and that holds 
> the crank from turning. Easier than fighting with trying to hold the ring 
> gear, works when you dont have an impact wrench available and is pretty 
> hard to break anything with this.
>
> Hope this helps,
>
> Mikey
>
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