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Car Forum / Honda Cars / January 2006Crank Shaft Bolt (Which Way)
I am changing the head gasket on a '88 Honda Accord. Which damn way does the crank shaft bolt rotate. I am under the impression that it is a reverse thread bolt. Can any one confirm this. Also looking for tips on breaking the crank shaft bolt loose. The hole screwdriver in the "ring gear" is giving me hell. I have a LARGE screwdriver for the job. Thanks Robert Baum > I am changing the head gasket on a '88 Honda Accord. Which damn way > does the crank shaft bolt rotate. I am under the impression that it is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks > Robert Baum 1. google this group for /extensive/ discussion/advice. 2. do NOT try the ring gear - you'll break teeth and that's EXPENSIVE. honda bolts are /way/ too tight for that trick. 3. it's standard r/h thread. 4. get the proper tools for the job - you'll be glad you did. Just wanted to say thanks for the link. I created that tool today and after a trip to lowes to get a metal fence post to act as a cheater pipe, the "damn bolt" was off in seconds. Glad it worked out. Any estimate as to how many pounds of force you applied, and at what distance from the centerline of the bolt? That's always good stuff for the archives. I used an old piece of fence post (five foot or so) that I had lying around to augment my cheater bar, too. > Just wanted to say thanks for the link. I created that tool today and > after a trip to lowes to get a metal fence post to act as a cheater > pipe, the "damn bolt" was off in seconds. It is right hand threaded, so the usual "rightie-tightie and lefty-loosy" applies. You have a few options to loosen it: -- Impact wrench, at least 500 ft-lbf rating. I'm told Home Depot rents them. But reports here indicate this does not always work. -- Ask your local mechanic to free it with his impact wrench, for a ten buck tip. Tighten "just enough" for the drive home. Free up again. -- Make a tool for about $15 and a half-day's of labor, tops. See http://home.earthlink.net/~honda.lioness/id6.html for instructions and a few more links. Look over your pulley carefully, and take measurements as needed, to make a tool like that at the site above that fits properly. I don't think a tool can be easily purchased for this particular pulley. I was checking around last week when someone else posted and couldn't find one that appeared to match. IIRC, your pulley has the power steering belt "lip," so use the hose pieces etc. as described at the site above for pulley category (2). Also IIRC, your bolt is one of the smaller diameter ones, so an impact wrench might work just fine. The screwdriver in the ring gear bit is not generally recommended, per a few web sites. > I am changing the head gasket on a '88 Honda Accord. Which damn way > does the crank shaft bolt rotate. I am under the impression that it is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks > Robert Baum > It is right hand threaded, so the usual "rightie-tightie and > lefty-loosy" applies. [quoted text clipped - 14 lines] > carefully, and take measurements as needed, to make a tool > like that at the site above that fits properly. i watched a guy use a tool like that in my junk yard visit yesterday. he broke out the web between two sets of holes on the pulley wheel. presumably he was trying to get a replacement for one he'd broken before. the proper tool is the way to go. > I don't think a tool can be easily purchased for this > particular pulley. I was checking around last week when [quoted text clipped - 33 lines] >>Thanks >>Robert Baum > Elle wrote: > > It is right hand threaded, so the usual "rightie-tightie and [quoted text clipped - 20 lines] > presumably he was trying to get a replacement for one he'd broken > before. the proper tool is the way to go. He's not using the tool correctly, or he didn't snug it up. Or perhaps temperatures were too cold, and the pulley was fatigued. Yada, cause those tools are supposed to be able to take the force of such a tool, by design. It's the only reason they're there. The homemade design is similar to the one would buy; it transmits/transfers yada the torque to the pulley holes. Problem is I don't see such a tool available today for purchase for the 1988 Accord. I have used mine several times now. Works great. Another regular here has used such a tool many a time, too. > He's not using the tool correctly, or he didn't snug it up. > Or perhaps temperatures were too cold, and the pulley was > fatigued. Yada, cause those tools Post-o. Put "pulley holes" in place of "tools" above. > are supposed to be able to > take the force of such a tool, by design. It's the only [quoted text clipped - 7 lines] > I have used mine several times now. Works great. Another > regular here has used such a tool many a time, too. >>>It is right hand threaded, so the usual "rightie-tightie > [quoted text clipped - 63 lines] > I have used mine several times now. Works great. Another > regular here has used such a tool many a time, too. completely disagree. consider the stress orientations of the factory tool. the holes only resist rotation as "support" of the load is via the socket on the bolt. with your tool they resist both rotation /and/ the leverage of non-radial loading - there is no "support". go to a junk yard some time. pulleys that have been broken using your kind of tool are very common. always two adjacent holes and extensive collateral damage. i'll take may camera to the junk yard some time if you want confirmation. > Elle wrote: > > [quoted text clipped - 69 lines] > tool. the holes only resist rotation as "support" of the load is via > the socket on the bolt. I can't figure out what you're trying to say. Yours is horrible writing. It wastes a lot of time. Tack on that I sense you have never had a course in statics, much less strength of materials, or you didn't understand the material well if you did take these courses, and we have a nuclear holocaust in communications. Which "load"? The socket has a force being applied to it from the wrench, but then the bolt itself is also applying a force in the opposite direction to the socket. Here's what is happening: The commercial tool has a prong that goes through one of the pulley holes. The commercial tool, like the homemade one, must be supported against something, such as the ground or maybe the body of the car. In both instances, the holes in the pulley are pushing against the prong or the bolt in the same manner. > with your tool they resist both rotation /and/ > the leverage of non-radial loading - there is no "support". > > go to a junk yard some time. pulleys that have been broken using your > kind of tool are very common. always two adjacent holes My tool doesn't insert into two adjacent holes, for one thing. For another, of course any breakage, with the commercial tool or a homemade one, is going to be at two holes, because of the way the forces are applied during rotation. > and extensive > collateral damage. i'll take may camera to the junk yard some time if > you want confirmation. I suspect what you're seeing explains why the hole design is no longer used. The flaw in the hole design of pulley would be an argument against both the commercial tool and the homemade tool. You want to make that argument, that's fine. It is speculation but absolutely worthwhile speculation. IF there are as many pulleys out there with busted holes as you say. I have yet to see a report, from anyone other than you, of breaking the pulley as you describe. I'm not saying it doesn't happen. I'm saying you're over-reacting. Again. Just like you experienced yesterday, all tools should be used with care. Hurting one's self as badly you did tells me this was as much operator error as it was any problem with the tool. You're applying a high enough amount of force to cause something to go flying (your body? or the socket?), without anticipating something suddenly loosening, after how many years of experience? Phew... <snip unfocused sniping> let's get to the point: http://www.flickr.com/photos/38636024@N00/80617642/ examine this pic. now, draw a line from the center of the pulley to one hole - that's a radial line for the pulley. any force exerted between the center, a hole and the exertion point must by definition be tangential to the circle formed by the holes. with the correct tool, any twisting of the holding dowel at the hole is mitigated by having a large stiff pivot mounted at the bolt [via the driving socket] and by having a bolt head with an extended hex [which it does]. /these/ holes on the other hand, as would be expected from drawing a straight line between the two broken holes and the exertion point, do NOT evidence force wholly applied tangential to the hole circle. this leaves the web having to handle a mix of radial /and/ tangential loads, AND the full twisting loads of the dowels used. the results of all 3 loading modes we see here. > examine this pic. > http://www.flickr.com/photos/38636024@N00/80617642/ > http://img468.imageshack.us/img468/5861/80617642ef047fce92m1ru.jpg Looks like someone had used excessive force or forgot to remove some form of a pulley holder before cranking the starter. > I am changing the head gasket on a '88 Honda Accord. Which damn way > does the crank shaft bolt rotate. I am under the impression that it is [quoted text clipped - 4 lines] > Thanks > Robert Baum CAUTION: IT TAKES A HELL OF A LOT OF TORQUE TO REMOVE THE CRANKSHAFT PULLY BOLT. IF YOU DONT SECURE THE PULLY CORRECTLY, AND I EMPHASIZE CORRECTLY, YOU RISK EXPENSIVE DAMAGE. THINK OF THE TORQUE GENERATED WHEN YOU PUT A 4 FOOT CHEATER ON A BREAKER BAR AND GIVE IT A HEAFTY TUG! I WEIGH 210-lbs AND I NEEDED A 4-FOOT CHEATER PIPE TO GET MINE LOOSE. DONT EVEN CONSIDER ANYTHING SMALLER THAT 1/2 INCH DRIVE SOCKETS AND EXTENSIONS. I just removed the crankshaft pully on my 99 civic this weekend. Built a custom tool to hold the crankshaft pully and it worked perfectly. I will try to describe that tool now: My 99 civic crankshaft pully has a large (approx 2 inch "diameter") six-sided void concentric with the crankshaft bolt. If you had a large 2" diameter nut, you could slip it inside this void and still be able to thread your socket through the center of this large nut. So if you could keep this large nut from turning, you could then remove the crankshaft pully bolt. If your honda has the same hex-shaped features on the crankshaft pully, let me know and I will send you a pic of the tool I used. I live 30 min south of Kansas City: you can have the tool if you'd like. Chris >>I am changing the head gasket on a '88 Honda Accord. Which damn way >>does the crank shaft bolt rotate. I am under the impression that it is [quoted text clipped - 29 lines] > > Chris ---------------------------------------- Take a look at tegger.com for a description of how to build the described tool. It's the same for the CR-V (first generation). 'Curly' |
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