OK, its not LBC but it is car related.
I have been rooked into doing the timing on my moms 91 Buick Park Ave. With
a 3.8 ltr V-6. Not too hard of a job. However the harmonic balancer is
designed to be held on by a large bolt (already got it off) and then pulled
off by hand. Sounds great in theory, but as most of you probably know. It
doesn't happen that way. I am sure during the past nine years the balancer
has rusted together. Unfortuneately, it doesn't have any bolt holes to
mount a balancer puller to. It does have three slots 1" wide and a 1/4"
thick equally spaced around the balancer, I hooked some S hooks into those
slots last night and used them with the puller. While I "think" I pulled it
out about an 1/8" I am not sure. The S hooks gave way and dashed my hopes.
I have liberally applied wd-40 (sorry no pb-blaster) and will be taking this
back on after work.
Any suggestions on removing this would be greatly appreciated, as I have no
desire to still be doing this job one week from now.
Here for the duration.
Patrick Bowen
Columbus Ohio - Any listers living near here???
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