When I did this job on my sephia I had a helper put the car in gear and
hold down the brake pedal. I have a 5 speed so that made the job
relatively simple. I just used a large breaker bar to remove the bolt.
If you have an automatic transaxle my advice would be to rent or borrow
either an electric or pneumatic impact wrench. When you go to tighten
it back down if you must use an impact wrench you need to be
careful...run the bolt in until it bottoms out and then tighten one
quarter turn with the impact wrench.

Now...as an aside note..if your timing belt is new you do not need to
remove the front crankshaft pulley completely. Pull out the four bolts
that go AROUND it so that you can get the timing belt covers off, but
leave the center bolt installed. You can loosen up the timing belt and
just push it down out of the way while you remove the water pump.

The waterpump/timing belt job is a real pain in the a.s on the sephia.
Took me several days. I feel your pain... ;)

Chris

Well folks..since I have an automatic, I took some hints from several
older threads on somehow trying to brace the flywheel teeth. I noticed
that there was a small access port on the bell housing (most likely put
there in order to reach the flywheel to torque converter bolts) I
noticed that turning the crankshaft and looking thru the small access
port (bout 6inches wide) that there are small oval holes more like
vents to help cool...(I assume) on the flywheel or backing plate. I
used a prybar and stuck it thru the vent like hole and braced  it on
the bell housing, then I used and extension pipe on my breaker bar and
the damm bolt loosened! Thanks for everyones help here. Hopefully this
info will be of some good use to some poor sod searching for the same
problem in these newsgroups.

E.T.