Just a quick question

To get my timing cover off I was planning on just using a knunkle bar, propping aginastt the chassis rail and crank the motor a tad. Its really the only way that i know of to crack the harmonic balancer nut off.


If anyone has any ideas other than this dodgy as method...


cheers

I was told to do that to get the crank pulley nut off my 4agze. I'm not sure if its that wise...

Cant you just whack it in gear and do it by hand with a breaker bar?

...edit for crap spelling...

If you can get an air impact gun in there, that will take off the crank pulley nut.

What is more worrisome is removing the cover itself:
1. Use lots of penetrating oil.
2. Go around the gasket with a razor to cut loose as much gasket as possible.
3. Several small screwdrivers inserted between the cover and block will pry it off. The key is to get leverage in several areas OR IT WILL BREAK.

Hopefully you are more lucky than I was last year. After trying everything I could I ended up having to break my cover off in pieces. It was corroded onto the studs real bad. Now my A12 wears the cover from an A14...

rattle gun is the only way!!!

using big extension bar on with the drivetrain in gear will put lots and lots of torque through the gbox and diff etc. not good

remember the nuts underneath the timing cover (comeing up thru the sump...)

Breaker bar and start her up haha. It works. Done it numerous times by accident when using the bar to turn the engine over to audjust the tapppets.

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even more than the engine produces?

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havent we all haha get the ####in shock of your life, starter cranking the WHACK! put a nice dent in my sunnys inner guard doing that

rattle gun safest way but you can do it with the breaker bar in place i needed to do it once myself & it worked fine.

dave

Cranking it is fine to do. Its also easy enough just to put the car in gear and release the handbrake and roll the car to undo it. Doesnt take much to crack it.
You will need to drop the sump a little to remove the timing cover, otherwise you will crack the cover prying it when it cant go.

Yeah breaker bar against chassis rail with rag under and a quick flick of the starter with coil lead OFF, works a treat.

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i was trying to get mine off using a big bar and the back suspension was squating down when i put some elbow grease into it...

although yes a sudden crack will be less strenuous.

yeh the sump will have to come down a bit and that means taking off the starter motor too (well i do anyway).

probable best to drain oil aswell because you'll most likely get water and gasket in the sump when you take the cover off.