Timing Belt + General Maint Questions
04-01-2011
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Driving to a shop and having them crack the pulley bolt sounds like a hassle to me. If I were you and didn't have the the special tool or air tools, I would just buy the special tool. You will probably end up having to pay the shop to loosen the bolt for you. (you can find the tool for just under 30 bucks shipped on the internet)
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i have been there and done that with many bolts....i have a 4 foot cast iron sprinkler pipe that i keep for these reasons to put over my ratchet....but even with that i am still not sure....never tried this bolt before but from what im reading its horrid....or maybe everybody who says that is not as experienced as me....or thats what im hoping....lol
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I was putting all me weight into it and the bar was flexing to the max id say... so... i thought if i jump on it either the bolt will break free or the breaker bar will snap.. I jumped on it heard "SNAP", luckilly it was the bolt. I had to do that three times to actually free the bolt up!!!
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good it was the bolt, not ur ***** over the bar 
all depends on luck, i guess. some of the ball joints in my case were a pain, tool or not... u-tube method almost killed me had to repair the wall...
all depends on luck, i guess. some of the ball joints in my case were a pain, tool or not... u-tube method almost killed me
had to repair the wall... 
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Wow... the youtube method is the one I used with success... my bolt only had 80k miles on it though. I do believe the more miles the harder it is to free it 
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'Just did mine on a 2001 I recently picked up used. The car has 182,000 miles, and i know the belt was original, and surprisingly, everything under that cover looked good. I think the mfgrs build in a lot of margin there, but why tempt fate specially on an interference engine. The " recommended " method of removing the crank bolt worked perfectly. Replacing the plugs and setting up the valves gave a surprising improvement in the engine smoothness, and im looking forward to see how much it helps the mpg.
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