I am doing a timing belt on a 1996 neon, but i cant get the damn pulley to budge!! I tried a 2 jaw puller but to no avail! anyone know of any good tricks to get the pulley off? 2.0 single cam. Thanks in advance!
EZ4U2CHere
04-05-2006, 07:17 PM
Go to autozone and rent the chrysler puller. Two jaw puller won't cut it. 3-jaw puller will, but you'll still need an insert that won't mess up the end of the crank or more importantly, the threads inside the crank.
RadarLove
04-06-2006, 11:02 PM
You can use the big passenger side motor mount bolt and thread it in, it will stick out pretty far (you want it in as far as it will go or you'll damaged both sets of threads). You may need to punch the middle of it to keep the 3-jaw puller from sliding off. You can use a generic 5-ton 3-jaw puller. I bent the 3-ton one...
Best of luck!
TurboN8
04-10-2006, 12:43 PM
Thanks guys bought a 3 jaw puller and it came off. Damn they really put that pulley on there!
RadarLove
04-11-2006, 05:01 AM
It's a compression fit rather than a keyed setup like some cars have. First clue that it's just a pulley, not a balancer...
Getting it back on can be a pain as well, even more so. That passenger side bolt and a big stack of washers might come in handy - tighten, remove a couple of washers, tighten, etc. Don't know if heating up the stocker works as well as it does for an UDP. I didn't have to heat mine, just a little anti-seize and on it went (3 times now), never slipped in many, many miles...
Best of luck!
EZ4U2CHere
04-11-2006, 10:16 PM
Getting it back on can be a pain as well, even more so.
Nothing a sledge hammer won't take care of.
