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How do you install the harmonic balancer on a 226 cylinder?
I think all I need is a long piece of threaded rod and a couple of nuts to make the tool but I'm not sure of the size of the thread in the end of the crank. I pretty sure it's 5/8" fine thread. I bought two 5/8" fine thread bolts from the hardware store thinking I could somehow make a tool but I really need on solid long threaded rod. The bolts I bought thread into the hole about 1/2" but seem to start to bind.
Anyone have pictures how they did it? I don't want to have to reinvent the wheel if I don't have to.
Also, Amazon along with other places have an installation tool for a Chevy LS engine but I don't know it has compatible threads, anyone know the threads in the LS crank, I'd bet they're metric.
Heat it with a torch, then heat it with a hammer!!!!
Bobby, I don't think that's the proper way of doing it.
I think I found an installation tool at my local MacParts store in their tool loaner program. I wish I would have found it sooner. I have to wait until tomorrow to get it and see if it'll work.
I've put them in the oven to evenly warm them and gently persuaded them on. You really don't want to go crazy beating on it as it can damage the thrust bearing and change crankshaft end play. You did check crankshaft end play?
I've put them in the oven to evenly warm them and gently persuaded them on. You really don't want to go crazy beating on it as it can damage the thrust bearing and change crankshaft end play. You did check crankshaft end play?
No, I didn't but the crank turns easy enough. The connecting rods have some play but I didn't check them either.
I thought about heating the pulley up but I just painted it and the only oven I have is the one in the house and I don't think my wife would be very understanding if I stunk up the house and also the next she baked something and it tasted like paint.
No, I didn't but the crank turns easy enough. The connecting rods have some play but I didn't check them either.
I thought about heating the pulley up but I just painted it and the only oven I have is the one in the house and I don't think my wife would be very understanding if I stunk up the house and also the next she baked something and it tasted like paint.
You should check end play. If you don't and it's excessive you'll hear it when you push in on the clutch
you're not heating it to melt it lol just warm enough to get it going on. I'd say 250 in the oven.
250° would be enough to release the fumes from the fresh paint. My wife it the type that can see a spot of dirt under the couch in the other room as soon as she walks into the house and would pick up on the slightest hint of paint fumes and she'd really go through the roof if she baked a cake and it came out tasting like paint.
I was contemplating sending my oil pick up screen through the dishwasher after I got it really clean but still had a few holes plugged and some dried oil stuck behind the bracing but I decided it was easier, and safer, to devise a vibratory wash tank using a plastic tub and an electric hand sander
I was contemplating sending my oil pick up screen through the dishwasher after I got it really clean but still had a few holes plugged and some dried oil stuck behind the bracing but I decided it was easier, and safer, to devise a vibratory wash tank using a plastic tub and an electric hand sander
yeah, safer for you! Unless you can duck from rolling pins and pots.
The 226 crank pulley is a tight fit, thus the tapped holes in it for removal. I would use a harmonic balancer installer that you should be able to get or even rent from a parts store. Here is the manzel installer.
I was able to get an install tool from O'Reillys and installed the pulley. Took a lot longer to drive to get the tool than it took to install the pulley.
I took an automatic transmission course many years ago. One night the instructor sat a small diameter piston and sleeve on his bench and ask all of the students to try to insert the piston into the sleeve. No how anyone tried to do it they couldn't get the piston in the sleeve. The instructor started his lesson and after about five minutes his quickly picked up the piston and dropped it into the sleeve. The tolerance between the piston and sleeve was so small that handling the piston for more that a second or two would expand the piston and wouldn't allow it to drop into the sleeve.
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