3fe harmonic balancer

[Irish11]

This story keeps getting better and better. I found a used ballancer at my local Toyota yard for $120. It needed a speedy sleeve so I picked one of those up for $40 so I have a good ballancer for $160.

The problem is I cannot for the life of me get the old bolt back off. I tired the starter bump a good 10-15 times. No dice. So I soaked in in PB and still no dice. I tried the chain method I had used to put the bolt on. But the bolts I had put into the ballancer were too long and I snapped one off. I built an immobilizer with some instruction from 1911 over on ExPo in the Cruiser section. I couldn't find any 1/4" stock steel at my local hardware stores, so I settled on 3/16". Well that didn't work. It wasn't strong enough and I just ended up bending it under the cruiser. And that is where I am today.

I am going to try the chain method again tomorrow when I get some time after work. I have shorter bolts and I think its going to work. I also bought a new crank nut from Toyota for $30. So that brings the total to around $190 + $20 for the seals that I have into this. Funny how a $20 set of seals snowballs like this. I'm thinking of selling off the ballancer and buying a brand new one so I don't have to do this all again for a long time. But I have some time to think that over.

 

[Irish11]

Update! I got it off! The chain method and shorter bolts into the balancer did the trick. I ordered a PPI balancer from O'Riley's too. I'm going to put the other one I picked up up for sale I think. Or add it to the spare parts pile for now, haha.

 

[Spike Strip]

Can you do us a small favor and post some pix of the O'reilly's HB when you get it, please?

Glad you were successful in the removal !

 

[Irish11]

Update... I am pissed.

I got in the O'reilly's HB yesterday. So I went and rented a torque wrench to put the nut back on. I took the HB out of the box, snapped a bunch of photos with the old one for comparison and tried to put it on. They did not machine it enough and it will not fit over the shaft! I am going to go return it to my local O'reilly's tomorrow. I had to special order it so I assume it is going to be another week before I can get one and I am out the rental on the wrench so there's another $25 down the drain. I'm debating speedy sleeving the one I have off the FJ80 and just putting it on so that I can be done with it...

 

[Zombie Weenis]

$25 to rent a wrench? Go elsewhere. I know Auto Zone rents stuff for free. You leave a deposit for the cost of the tool and they refund it when you bring it back.

 

[Toybota]

If the choice is another new O'reilly's HB or the speedi-sleeve, I would run the speedi sleeve, keep an eye on it, and wait for a good condition used OEM.

It sucks to do this more than once, but I bet you're getting the procedure down pretty good by now...