Removing crankshaft pulley

[azgolfrat]

Hi Guys,
I’ve been working on removing the 10% od innovators west dampener / pulley off crankshaft for a bit now, with no success.
I’m using a puller tool (which I used to pull off the oem pulley last summer), I’ve lubed up the arena with pb blaster, and I have two 3 ft long breaker bars in place, one to turn the puller stud and one to stop balancer rotation. That’s a lot of force, and yet it doesn’t want to budge.
When I put the 10% balancer on, I used anti sieze on the nose of the crankshaft and on the mating balancer surface.
I’ve used an inspection mirror to make sure the adaptor on the end of the stud is hitting the crankshaft nose. It is.

Any ideas?

I’m calling innovators west…they are busy right now.

Thanks

[Mr. Man]

I don't suppose there's a set screw or something that needs to be removed first? Other than that, seems like you'd be doing the things I can think of.

[03Merc]

Hi Guys,
I’ve been working on removing the 10% od innovators west dampener / pulley off crankshaft for a bit now, with no success.
I’m using a puller tool (which I used to pull off the oem pulley last summer), I’ve lubed up the arena with pb blaster, and I have two 3 ft long breaker bars in place, one to turn the puller stud and one to stop balancer rotation. That’s a lot of force, and yet it doesn’t want to budge.
When I put the 10% balancer on, I used anti sieze on the nose of the crankshaft and on the mating balancer surface.
I’ve used an inspection mirror to make sure the adaptor on the end of the stud is hitting the crankshaft nose. It is.

Any ideas?

I’m calling innovators west…they are busy right now.

Thanks

Is there a washer in there like on the original crank pulleys?


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[musclemerc]

You didn't mention removing the crank washer.

Did you?

[azgolfrat]

You didn't mention removing the crank washer.

Did you?

yes! that got me once before - when removing oem pulley. thanks


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[azgolfrat]

I got it off! Called innovators west and while they chose words carefully, they indicated if everything was set up right, just use more force. Using the handle pipes from a floor jack, with a sturdy screwdriver pushed into one of the pipe ends to be used for anti crank rotation, it finally gave. There was a decent amount of crusted up anti seize that may have actually made it harder to get the pulley off, dont know. The key way still had some white lithium grease I had used when initially sliding the pulley/ balancer on.
I will post a pic of my removal set up later today. Thanks for the inputs.


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[azgolfrat]

53037 removal

[azgolfrat]

Used this set up to tighten water pump pulley bolts ( old serp belt)