Crank bolt and oil filter adapter

[John N]

#1 How the #$%& can I get this crank bolt off to change the timing cover gasket! I have used heat and breaker bars and hammers and many things that I probably shouldn't have. I think the crank will twist before this bolt comes out.

#2 My oil filter is relocated by the passenger headlight area. The adapter was screwed on to some other piece that just had the hose looped. I figure it is pointless if the hose is just looped, but when I removed it to look at it I noticed a spring inside it that the adapter piece does not have. So can I remove the original piece or move the spring, or what is the verdict on that?

Thanks a lot guys!

 

[TurboTR]

The crank bolt can be tough. Best thing would probably be to just go rent an impact wrench. Electric if you have no air supply. If no impact, then a long cheater pipe over a breaker bar. Wear eye protection, the cheater bar business end can break with explosive force. I've broken at least 2, but Sears has a free replacement policy The crank can be blocked against the side of the block if the pan is off. If not, you'll maybe have to try to block through a hole in the flex plate somehow.

Engine in car, this is pretty easily doable. Engine on a stand, much tougher because of the amount of torque involved.

TurboTR

 

[John N]

I tried all of the above minus the impact gun. I was pretty sure it wouldn't have enough power. I'll give that a try though.

 

[Grumpy]

get a piece of steel and bend it into an "L" .. drill a hole for a bolt and put it on the back of the block so it holds the flexplate .. makes things very easy then

 

[TurboTR]

Did I mention that the cheater pipe is 5' of heavy wall tubing? Thus the broken breaker bars Something will give in that case- either your back, the breaker bar, something

TurboTR

 

[John N]

Yeah I used half a jack handle over an extra long breaker bar with the flywheel held in place earlier and the damn thing wouldn't budge. I'll be back around the garage next weekend to try out the impact gun.

 

[gnxtc2]

Impact gun would be your best bet on getting the balancer bolt off.

On the oil filter adapter issue. The piece that has the hoses looped together is the oil cooler adapter. Yes, you can remove it. I don't know why it wasn't removed in the first place. If you decide to hook the oil cooler up, make sure the oil cooler in the rad was not contaminated from an engine mishap. You can NOT clean out the oil cooler in the rad.

The spring you see is the oil bypass.

You can mount the remote oil filter adapter right to the timing cover.

Billy T.
gnxtc2@aol.com

 

[Lee Thompson]

try this

Lock the crank @ the rear of eng. somehow!!!! Use an extension on an inpact wrench. Use an extension long enough so that while impacting it you can put a pipe wrench on the extension. Obviously you will need a friend to trigger the impact. Best of luck.

 

[bosted86]

i did it by putting a breaker bar on on the bot and putting it against the frame then tapped the starter and the bolt came right out. dunno how smart it was doing it but it worked. oops did realize engine was out of the car soory.

 

[John N]

Yeah, rub it in. If I had known it would be such a PITA I would have done the starter trick too!

 

[ccognetta]

The Answer

You need to grade 8 bolts that will fit the crank bolt holes from Home Depot. Regular crank bolts twisted on the first shot! Put the bolts in the two holes right next to each other. Know grab a super long pry bar and place in through the screws and down, between them. Have some hold it while you use a torque wrench to wrench down and get it off.

Just did it 2 days ago with the same problem.. Only in the car!

 

[wagon]

Clamp a pair of locking pliers(Vise Grips) onto the flywheel rotate it so that it is up against the block, and use an impact gun on the bolt. It should come right out as long as you have a half decent gun and a good supply of air.

 

[mikestertwo]

3/4 drive impact. Comes right off