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Originally Posted by MS Fowler
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But unless you can stop the crank from spinning, all the breaker bar/ cheater in the world would not help. They talk about using a strap wrench on the crank pulley. Its just difficult for a one-man operation to do both at the same time.
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OK, I think I need to clarify my language. When I used the words, "in addition to", I didn't mean that the breaker bar / cheater were an alternative to using a specialty tool to restrain the crank pulley. In the references I saw, they were being used to loosen the bolt while the crank pulley was being held in place by a specialty tool.
Perhaps we're looking at different DIY procedures, or perhaps the tool to which I'm referring isn't applicable to the car on which you were working - but here's a
video of that tool in use.