I remembered that thread and was looking for it but could not find it. It used to be pinned as the first...

Thanks - I am off to weld some metal to create a wrench...

G.

Greg,
Again before you go through all that trouble, try heat and impact. I used a top quality impact and leaned on it. it wouldn't budge. I applied a little heat with my smoke wrench and it buzzed right out. I saw evidence of blue loctite. Also make sure the allen socket doesn't say Taiwan or China on it anywhere. The melted loctite trick works on steering wheels, load leveling struts, tailgate shocks and many other apps.

Good luck,
Peter

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Blue loctite is confirmed.


I spent my morning to run around rental stores for a chain wrench (as was suggested by a member). Finally I got one that was the right size (with a 4 1/2 inch face) was $18 for the day. REmoved the bolts from the waterpump pulley to have some more room, put the wrench onto the pulley (damage did not matter anymore). Put my allen with a reinforced Craftsman 1/2 bar and a 5 foot 3/4 pipe on the bolt. I pushed thechain wrench with my feet and pulled the pipe with my hands (kind of a back breaker). Finally the bolt moved and I have turned it about 90 degrees. Then I put my 630ftlbps impact at it and it still did not do anything (after loosening up the bolt! ). So back to the back-breaker and opened it all the way up.

My new HB runs like a charm...

Thanks for all the help!

Greg,

Glad to hear you got the job done. How did you torque up the new HB?

Peter

You DIYs work too hard, but there must be some consolation in there somewhere. At any rate I'm glad that you were successful.

Peter

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We need your words of wisdom for this sort of thing.

Perhaps, bump the starter when things are positioned properly, or ...

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Warren

Currently 1965 220Sb, 2002 FORD Crown Vic Police Interceptor

Had 1965 220SEb, 1967 230S, 280SE 4.5, 300SE (W126), 420SEL

ENTER > = (HP RPN)

Not part of the in-crowd since 1952.

Was not quite as hard as overhauling an Acura Legend engine

It is great that there are people willing to share information.

As far as tightening, I've used my impact wrench, set it at 450 should be okay. I have also used some thread locker on it... (may the next guy howl in pain )