Gold 'N' Brown
Thursday 13th June 2013, 23:11
I'm in a bad mood :grumpy:
I'm determined to do a cambelt change on my V70 myself. But reading a recent thread which revealed just how cheaply some indy's will do the job had me starting to regret the decision. More so after this evening.
I started off by buying the crank holding tool in May. I saw a used Sealey one come up on eBay and won it for £20 plus £5 postage, so a little saving over buying one new.
Last weekend I discovered for myself that the stories of just how tight these crank bolts often are were obviously true. There was no way I was getting mine off with just my breaker bar and my own (lack of) strength. PLan B was put in to action and I ordered a cheap (£40) 12v impact wrench. Higher rated than most of the cheap ones, this one claims a max 340NM, so I hoped it would be up to the job. It wasn't. It didn't make blind bit of difference.
On to plan C. This involved a the breaker bar, a length of rope, and 3.0 V6 Alfa Romeo. After very carefully and cautiously implementing plan C (without pulling my Volvo off the axle stands), I thought I'd cracked it. I jumped out of the Alfa and went to see..........that I hadn't cracked the crank nut :worried: What I have managed to do though, is turn my Sealey tool in to shiny banana. And it's split the weld where the handle is fixed to the ring.
So, £25 down the drain. £40 nearly wasted on the impact wrench (hopefully it will come in useful for other jobs, so not a total waste, and I had considered getting one for a while). And I'm still no further forward.
Looks like Plan D is going to involve trying to feed the belt past the auxiliary pulley. Or, I might just not bother and just pay an indy to do it instead. But I hate giving up.
I'm determined to do a cambelt change on my V70 myself. But reading a recent thread which revealed just how cheaply some indy's will do the job had me starting to regret the decision. More so after this evening.
I started off by buying the crank holding tool in May. I saw a used Sealey one come up on eBay and won it for £20 plus £5 postage, so a little saving over buying one new.
Last weekend I discovered for myself that the stories of just how tight these crank bolts often are were obviously true. There was no way I was getting mine off with just my breaker bar and my own (lack of) strength. PLan B was put in to action and I ordered a cheap (£40) 12v impact wrench. Higher rated than most of the cheap ones, this one claims a max 340NM, so I hoped it would be up to the job. It wasn't. It didn't make blind bit of difference.
On to plan C. This involved a the breaker bar, a length of rope, and 3.0 V6 Alfa Romeo. After very carefully and cautiously implementing plan C (without pulling my Volvo off the axle stands), I thought I'd cracked it. I jumped out of the Alfa and went to see..........that I hadn't cracked the crank nut :worried: What I have managed to do though, is turn my Sealey tool in to shiny banana. And it's split the weld where the handle is fixed to the ring.
So, £25 down the drain. £40 nearly wasted on the impact wrench (hopefully it will come in useful for other jobs, so not a total waste, and I had considered getting one for a while). And I'm still no further forward.
Looks like Plan D is going to involve trying to feed the belt past the auxiliary pulley. Or, I might just not bother and just pay an indy to do it instead. But I hate giving up.