Cant you get somebody to put thier foot on the brake.....
Yep. Planning to do this tonight after getting the wheels on the floor.
I also hope its not like the Omega V6 where it buggers the sprocket if you try the method you are by sheering the woodruff key.
Umm. Me too. The early MX5s had very troublesome crank nose / pulley arrangements anyway. This one's a 2000 model and apparently better but i'm still nervous. Depends where all the loads are going when you're grunting on the breaker bar I guess. Through the Woodruff key being less then ideal.
If I could get the outer pulley / vibration damper off I could probably fabricate a tool to lock the crank using its mounting bolts but I can't. :-/ Then I read reports on various forums that it doesn't come off unless the main crank pulley bolt is removed anyway, which sounds odd but might explain yesterday's lack of progress. Oh, for a decent workshop manual
General consensus if you believe what's on most Mazda forums is to strap a breaker bar onto it and turn the starter key...
Haven't come across anyone who's broken anything getting it off, even using the above method, which is encouraging.
You do realise those bolts are often 200+Nm + angle tighten and require replacing once removed.
This one is 120 lb ft tightening torque, so not too bad in theory but it's just siezed, I think. Oh, well, another dousing in plus gas and some more grunting later...
Doesn't help that the anti-roll bar runs across the front of the engine at pully height. Maybe that'll have to come off
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