Gen 2.5 Timing Belt ..... Stuck at compressor!

[freewayross]

Hi All,

Thanks I was able to take the compressor off and the plate over the water pump. Now I'm stuck at the removing crankshaft pulley step. The manual calls for a special tool, I tried Autozone and advance for some tool that might work... but no luck so far. Any ideas what generally available tool I can use, besides using the cranking method?

OLD:
Doing Timing Belt, We have taken of all the bolts for the timing belt metal cover except the two bolts that are covered by Compressor and compressor bracket. We removed two screws seen from the top where the compressor is tightened to the bracket and one of the bracket bolts as well..... but it's still not loose. Can some one help how to get to those two bolts to take the timing cover off.

Any directions on how to unscrew the compressor and the bracket so we can get to the remaining two bolts?

Thanks Much.

 

[mudraider]

Have you looked at the Factory Service Manual at mitsubishilinks.com to see what you are missing?

sent from my pretty good Android phone

 

[grandpa]

Try accessing the bolts through the fender well. Remove the tire.

 

[RyanY]

IIRC there are 4 bolts holding the compressor to the bracket and 4 bolts holding the bracket to the engine block. Access through the fender well is your best bet.

 

[freewayross]

Thanks, Now stuck on removing crank pulley step. any idea what readily available tool I can use? Can't use the car crank method because the valve cover is out.

Thanks

 

[PA_JERO]

If you don't have some sort of a spanner tool to hold the harmonic balancer than you will have to go the back of the motor. Remove the fly wheel inspection cover and you can either have someone hold a big flat head between the fly wheel teeth and the bell housing or put a 14mm socket with Ratchet on one of the torque converter bolts and jam it up against the bell housing.

This is not ideal but in a bind sometimes you have no choice.

 

[PacS14]

At first I thought I needed a special tool but in reality wiggling the harmonic balancer up and down and side to side. Thanks to those YouTube videos. Good luck!

 

[jaccox23]

There are several references to making your own spanner tool to hold the pulley in place while breaking the bolt. All the parts can be found at a Lowe's home Depot or local parts store. Go to the sticky for gen 2.5's and look through that parts list thread and at the end he has posted a few pics of the tool. It's the best 15 dollars tool you'll make for yourself as you can also use it to remove the cam sprockets to replace those seals as well. Takes like 5 mins to fab the tool up and all you'll need it's a drill and a couple bits to drill the steel out and then like PacS14 noted once the bolt is out you gotta wiggle the hell out of that harmonic balancer to get it off

 

[brad2274]

i used a piece of fence reinforcement( inch wide, 3/16 thick, 3ft long) and added the bolts, worked nice.

At first i thought you had trouble with the crank timing belt pulley behind it(hope you dont later) because mine was stuck on and had to be air chiseled off, had to buy a new 80$ sprocket.

 

[SlimPickins]

There is a guy that sells the tool on ebay, not too expensive and well made. That's where I purchased mine. There are two versions of the harmonic balancer, each requiring a specific tool in order to hold it in place while you loosen the bolt. You'll have to let him know which version of the balancer you have by measurement.

 

[IncorpoRatedX]

You need an adjustable spanner wrench.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Universal-C...-Pulley-Cam-Holder-Holding-Tool-/231663961583

Mine looks like this, but I have no idea if this one spreads enough, you'll have to source one for yourself or hopefully someone else here chimes in, alternatively, if you've got any amount of skill, a single piece of 1/4"x1" flat stock, a drill, a hack saw and a few bolts, you'll be able to make one.

Cut off about 5" of flat stock, drill a hole at both ends of the cut piece, on the longer piece; drill a hole 5" from one end, then another at the end you went 5" in from, bolt the two pieces together, then use a couple of bolts with nuts to hold them on as the pins. Home brew spanner wrench.