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Originally Posted by E46er
I had no luck with this stupid nut. This nut is seized for some reason either the last tech who worked on it overtorque the damn thing or it wasn't removed recently ie a couple years. I hate that stupid plastic pulley that the clutch fan sits on that thing can go any minute and I can't change it out cause of the clutch fan. I have brand new pulleys to install and that clutch fan is not budging, I hate. To pay someone at a shop to do this because I've done this job at least 5 or 6 times already. But I have no choice I tried whacking the thing after spraying freeze off and PB blaster and nothing.  |
I replaced my water pump and all belts on my 4.6is back in October, replaced the plastic pulley with an aluminum pulley for peace of mind. The nut shouldn't take that much to get it off, and it doesn't take much to tighten it, it will self tighten due to it being reverse threaded. You can buy the metal bar that holds the pulley in place on Ebay.