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Re: HELP!! Front crank nut!!

To: Erik Bjorkner <autoxr@zebra.net>
Subject: Re: HELP!! Front crank nut!!
From: Bill Davies <daviesw@ecid.cig.mot.com>
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 09:43:21 +0000
Cc: "'triumphs@autox.team.net'" <triumphs@autox.team.net>
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Hi Erik,
        It's definitely a normal right hand thread. I had to replace the front
seal on my wife's Dolomite 1500 last year (same engine). With the engine
in the car it's an easy job - appropriate socket on a long tommy bar,
wedging the bar against the subframe/chassis. Start the engine, and
switch off when there's a "clang" as the whole lot drops off!
        Sorry I can't help with any ideas for doing this on a stand, but at
least you know which way the thread goes,
        Cheers,
                Bill.

PS
  It was suggested to me that I'd need to heat the nut, but I didn't
want to get a torch anywhere near a fitted engine with seals to melt and
a fuel system primed and waiting!


Erik Bjorkner wrote:
> 
> HELP!!!
> 
> I am trying to remove the front nut that holds the pulley on at the
> front of the engine.
> 
> The engine is a 76 SPIT 1500.
> 
> I currently have it on a stand so there is no flywheel.  I have tried
> to hold the pulley with a pipe wrench and loosen the 1-7/8" nut with a
> breaker bar.... Couldn't hold the pipe wrench on...  I then attached
> the engine hoist chain on the crank via the flywheel bolts and I broke
> the chain.
> 
> It looks as if the engine rotates clock-wise as looking at it from the
> front.  I am wondering... is this nut a left hand nut?  I was assuming
> it was a right hand but am not sure!?!
> 
> Do I need to heat it with a torch??  Or attach some flat bar to the
> crank bolts and wedge it against the engine stand!!
> 
> HELP!!  NEED SUGGESTIONS!!!
> 
> Getting aggravated fast!!,
> 
> Thanks,
> Erik

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