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Excellent news. Glad I could help.
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Steve to save someone suffering a hernia, you are talking about the tensioner bearing being left handed and not the crank pulley bolt.
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Delete it it if you want mate and I'll delete both of mine. No one will be any the wiser.
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I had a hernia repair operation 3 months ago, so I definitely want to undo the pulley bolt in the right direction !! - I may use an air impact wrench anyway, if I can't shift it myself, and to avoid too much strain.
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Crank pulley is off !!
Well - progress today - went out to the garage fairly late due to a busy work day. Disconnected the battery and removed the starter motor (top bolt a bit difficult to get at, but not too bad).
I could not see any evidence of the 15mm bolts on the flywheel that could be used to lock it, according to another 'how to' thread on this forum. So I jammed a tyre lever into the starter motor 'hole' to lock the flywheel starter ring teeth - seemed to work OK. Now the fun part - I started with just a 3/4 inch 22mm socket on a short extension bar on the pulley bolt and a 2 foot breaker bar - nothing. Went to a three foot breaker bar - still nothing and the bar was bending that much I feared it might snap. Fearing for my recent hernia repair, I fired up the compressor and put the air impact wrench on the bolt- still nothing, even at full power setting. I was about to give up for today, thinking I would need to go out and buy a more powerful impact wrench (like the Clarke 1000 electric impact wrench, twice as powerful as my cheap air one) when I thought I would just try making a long extension bar out of various 3/4 inch extension bars, so that it would clear the wheel arch to get more leverage. I really did not think this would work, as there were too many joins, so I thought it would flex too much. Anyway, I cobbled it together, put a two foot breaker bar on the end, then slipped a 5 foot scaffold pole over that. Started to pull up on it, and lo and behold, I felt movement, and the bolt had freed, much to my amazement ! I am still in shock ! Going for lie down now ! - I will start putting it back together over the weekend. I assume there is no key or locating pin to go in the cut outs on the back of the pulley and end of the crankshaft - nothing fell out when I took the pulley off, so I assume I put it back on with just the bolt and washer (I have new ones from Rimmers). Pete |
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Good work Pete. Yes there is no key for the pulley - the diesels aren't timed from the pulley so no need for one.
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Looks easy with the right tool ....
http://workshop-manuals.com/bmw/3_se..._damper_(m47)/ I think the trick is to limit flexions .. Last edited by FrenchMike; 16th January 2015 at 19:25.. |
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