Easy Crankshaft Pulley Lock Torque/Removal 

First comment I've ever posted on RU-vid, but I had to let you know that you, sir, are a genius! Broke the bolt loose on my ranger using this method, worked perfect!

I agree!! You, sir are a genius. I've been mechanicing for 30 yrs but never seen this trick. Worked like a charm on my merc sable that my impact wouldn't touch. I will keep a strap in my tool bag! Thank you again!

Good to see a young guy hanging around his elders. He will learn character and skills that will serve him many times over. I shadowed my dad and learned what being a man was all about. SALUTE

This trick is slick. It worked like a charm. Thank you for taking the time to show it to everyone.

305k miles Ford 5.4l 16v, worked like a charm. Finally can finish timing chain replacement. Thank you sir!

You deserve a freaking medal!!!! I have been struggling for days!!! I had my 351w out of my vehicle and needed to remove a water pump pulley I just strapped it to itself tight and boom came off!!! Thanks

Nice trick! I've gotta replace the water pump on my old 96' BMW 750, and I've been pretty worried about this bolt. Definitely going to try this, thanks so much!

THIS WORKED!!) 1978 Ford F100 Lariat..) Thank you for making this video Sir ! It helped me realize that I also needed a Breaker bar to put more Strength into my turns., (Thankfully before I broke my socket wrench).,. I did have to fight with the strap once I got it tired down, to keep the pulley from turning, and hold the breaker bar at the same time, while getting leverage...But it did Grip!, and with Some PB blaster, and a little patience,. The Bolt broke FREE ! And I also got the four smaller bolts which also held the pulley in which were sung as well. Thanks to you, and Duece!!!

This man is the goat. I used the engine starter trick and 2 different impacts to no avail. Took a cheater bar and all the strength in me, but mine to pop off using this method.

Excellent tip! Very helpful and I will be using it tomorrow. Thank you.

Worked on my 300zx!! Thank you so much! Got it all torqued and ready to go🙏🏻

This tip helped me out of a hole today. Thank you! I needed to wrap the pulley with a bicycle inner tube first to get grip

Worked for me after an hour of trying other methods. Thanks!

Thank you men! Awesome work and just the pass down of experience i needed. You guys ARE pros.

Special guy, thank you for the vision!!

I'm working on one soon and I might use this method. thanks for the video 👍

Seems simple and effective. Definitely going to try this one the next I do a cambelt change

So glad I found this video. I just bought a chevette and the crankshaft pulley wasn't installed. I couldnt figure out how to get it on without spinning! Definitely going to try this tomorrow.

That's very helpful and informative. Thanks.

This worked like a charm, thank you. Crank pulley torque is 250lbft and I had to take it off for a cam swap. Had the car in gear with the brakes on and tried doing it without the strap and it was slipping the clutch.

Thank you sir, you just made my life that much easier

Great video! I learned something today! Thank you sir!

Thank you, thank you - this will save me time and trouble

Thanks for this! I will try this with my M43 engine. It is torqued to 330Nm and this seems the best way so far

Sir thanks for the help and God Bless you for this video. Just wanted to tell you how much I appreciate it!!!

Slick move, thanks from across the pond.

Great job to you and your excellent camera man!!🎉

This was very good useful information I'm going to try this tomorrow

This is a good way to do it, I myself do the same thing but with an old large fan belt, Rubber for grip, but i make the belt pinch under itself so the more is slips the tighter is becomes until it does not slip at all

Great idea , I didn’t think of that , I have a stubborn one on an old Citreon , so that’s tomorrow’s job 👍🏻thanks again

I like this idea of the frame wrap ! Thanks 👍👍👍✌✌✌🐎🐎🐎

Use this method first. Genius. Worked perfect the first time. Pulley didn’t slip at all

Thank you helped me out a ton on gettin that same bolt off so thank you again

I normally never never comment on youtube !! But this is simply brilliant, brilliant !! Thanks a ton for sharing !

Just tried this on a toyota that needed torqued to 213 ft. Lbs. Had to put a piece of rubber under the strap, but it worked. Thank you

Thanks for posting sir. This may be just the ticket to repair my leaky front seal on my F150 5.4L. I’d really prefer to use the proper torquing sequence over an impact.

I respect you for that ingenuity...that helped me a lot..

Thanks for the video used your technique and it worked perfectly, saved me a lot of time...

Great job, Duke!

Worked on my 7.3 power stroke. Used a 2” wide strap wrapped around a couple times , thanks!!

Hats off to you two 👑👑

worked a treat , thanks

Sir you did an AMAZING Job! "if i can do it, You can too"

Worked like a charm! Thank you!

Worked perfectly. Thanks for the great tip

Thanks for sharing. I'd tried just about everything to break my hb bolt loose before I decided to check youtube. I used what I seen yesterday on my Lincoln LS V8. It tried to work but I couldnt get the strap alone to bite so it would slip. So what I did to get more grip/bite was to cut a piece of rubber from a bike intertube long enough to cover about 3rd of the hb. and laid it on the grooves and them wrapped my strap.

gonna give this a try in the near future. my impact wasn't strong enough, but this looks like a great method. thank you and wish me luck

Great Idea!!!! Thank you!

I will be doing my timing belt in 2 days. ...This is useful info since I dont have an Impact & will be wrenching it.

Thanks! Great idea.

Thank you for your helpful video

Worked great!!! Thanks for the tip!

The man is a legend. I love ingenuity

Oh man very useful video! Thank you so much sir🙏

Very Awesome Trick!!!!! Wil Try It Myself!!! Props to you Sir!!!

You are an absolute genius thank you soooooo much!

Great job Duce. Trying this tomorrow on a 2004 Saturn Ion Redline.

Awsome alternative thank you

thanks! Just worked on my '77 Triumph Spitfire after I'd almost given up hope

Going to try this right now great video.

I just broke the crankshaft pulley bolt loose on my 2008 Honda Fit! I used a "3:1 Torque Multiplier ($257 new on Amazon)" and the crank pulley holding tool ($13). I ran a bunch of 1/2" extensions out from the multiplier and rested them on a jack stand and used a breaker bar with a 4 ft. cheater pipe on it and it broke loose. Even though the torque multiplier is rated for 1100 ft/lbs, I still had to put out on that cheater pipe. My 450 ft/lb. electric impact with the special crankshaft 19mm socket from Honda was not enough to break it loose.

Love your video. Now that also shows people where the hogs eat the cabbage. You're very like you have a good camera assistant.

Great job. That showed people where HOGS eat cabbage. Good thing you got a great cameraman

Thank you so much for posting this At 70 I have to replace my daughter hormonic balance But could not figure out how to keep the the crankshaft from turning At about torque of 200 foot lbs. it was impossible but know thanks to you I can do it

Thanks! worked an easy treat

This helped so much!!!

I thought I finally nailed it. But no. I habe a Master MK1 from 1984 and I can't remove the water pump pulley. I know that most of these pulleys are attached with three bolts bit this one has something extra "pulley" attached on it that just spins freely. I have no clue what it doe, but it stands on it that it's from an Italian factory that makes clutches. The thing is that when I do what you do in the video, it seems to finnaly work, but I'm a bit worried what will happen if I put all my strength in cause the whole engine is moving when I try to break the bolt loose.

I had to lay a rubber piece on the pulley to keep strap from slipping but it worked like a charm! I had to put 185lbs. Of torque on my Tacoma and I almost couldn’t do it😂

Wow great tip

Didn't work for me but it was a good idea worth a shot. I tried it both ways as I was trying to loosen the Crack pulley bolt. I wrapped it from underneath and around held the rest of the slack in the strap with one hand, then tried unloosing the bolt with a breaker bar but no luck. So then I wrapped it from the top and around the pulley still no luck the pulley still kept wanting to move as I was trying to loosen it. Crazy thing is I went to the junkyard to pull a part behind the crank pulley and that bolt came off with ease I also used my longest breaker bar with I think the bolt was 13/16 and it didn't take no effort of unloosing it. Wish I had a impact I am sure that would have spun it off with the pulley not moving. Just and update the impact wrench worked just as I expected it to spin the bolt right off. Was worth the $329 at home depot got a carrying bag with tool battery and battery charger. This tool spun it off with little to no force like two in half uge duges and of course with it on the nut busting setting as I tried all three settings before that. Get you one if you want peace of mind and a back up plan

Hello i can say your video helped me 100% but the Seal dont comming out . How can i take the ring out ?

I hope this works pulling the actual pulley out. I got the bolt out with my Milwaukee 1/2 impact but now I can't remove the pulley without it spinning and it's driving me nuts. I need to replace my oil pump in my 4.8 vortec and this is the 2nd to last step

I'll give this a shot tomorrow and report back. gotta torque the balancer on my 71 buick 455 to 200lbs min!

Definitely gonna give this a shoot. Had to replace water pump on a 98 mazada protege which requires removing the crank pulley

Nice. Never seen this method. I have to remove my harmonic balancer. Have been researching strap wrenches when come across this! Wish me luck, i will be using this method.

Like how everyone freaks out about the timing being off after that. It's the crank pulley, not a geared sprocket nor cogged belt/timing chain that you'd find behind all the accessory drive pulleys. The only thing you have to worry about is setting up to which way the engine rotates.

This one is good too.. but its easier to use an old serpentine or timing belt.. just place it on another pulley nearby and overlap it inside the pulley.

Shall be trying this on the weekend. Wish me luck 🙏

Never forget deuce

This will save me a lot of time (if it works for me). .... Thank you!

Thank you sir

Used this method with the Ratchet Strap and it worked to hold the pulley in place. I also used the "Bump Start" with a long bar and the Crankshaft bolt broke loose.

Climbers and technical rope rescue teams use a similar knot to anchor off a tree or pole.

genius......thank god you,

That’s a very good idea … although the proof of the pudding is if it works on removal but on a pulley that has been in situ for a long time..

Great trick!!

You saved me. Thank you. I will always respect hill billy knowledge

Excuse me. Can we not put the car in gear to lock the crankshaft then tightening or undoing the bolt ?? I may be wrong please correct me. Thank you

I like it! ...the cheapest option that works

Tried this but the strap just slipped and wouldn’t grip the pulley. I had an old inner tube laying around so I cut a strip of that and then wrapped the strap around the pulley with the inner tube between the pulley and strap. Now the strap gripped the pulley and I was able to remove the bolt.

Genius level 1000!

Great tip. I got to 100 ft pounds and couldn't get it to stop slipping, need to get to 130

Thank you you are very smart 😀 I try with my kia rio.

Great help thanks!

This worked for me.

Ha! Been staring at that same strap right next to the car and wondering if there was some way to use it to break loose my crankshaft pulley bolt. Those special tools are too expensive.

Easy Crankshaft Pulley Lock Torque/Removal

sir greetings from across the pond.... am i correct in assuming if i do this RIGHT i dont need to lock the fly wheel with some fancy tool (i dont have )?????

Not sure if this would work on a silverado with a torque to yield crankshaft pulley bolt. Requires significantly more torque

shout out Deuce!