I am in the process of removing my crankshaft pulley and want to know if I've done everything correctly so far and what the next steps are. So far I got the two drive belts off, removed the passenger side motor mount, and removed the stock bolt from the crankshaft pulley. I rented a 3 toothed 5 ton gear pulley at Autozone but when I use it to get the pulley off, the pulley rotates with it. So I wedged a crowbar inside a gap in the pulley so it wouldn't rotate. Is it bad that the pulley rotated a little; will this mess up the cam timing? It rotated both clockwise and counterclockwise, nothing major like a full rotation, just rotated a little bit. What do you guys use to prevent the pulley from rotating when using the 3 toothed gear pulley? Would having someone sit in my car in fifth gear with the brake pressed down HARD prevent it from rotating? I didn't have a longer-than-stock bolt to screw into the pulley so I wasn't able to remove the pulley yet. I tried other methods, but the pulley wouldn't budge. Is it normal for it to take a long difficult time in removing the pulley? This is how far I've gotten so far. I also need to buy a new crankshaft pulley. I could use a recommendation on where to get it. Autozone is out of stock and I don't want to pay over twice as much at satan. I saw it at Buschur Racing for $100. Please let me know how I'm doing with this crankshaft pulley removal. Any advice/tips would be greatly appreciated.

you dont need to worry about it rotating cause the timing belt is still installed so everything turns with it, you would only be worried if the timing belt was off then you dont want to turn it.

and yes the 3 jaw pulley will get it off eventually some say to heat up the stock pulley with a torch to cause it to expand and come off, its on hell of a press fit on that shaft/pulley

1998 dodge avenger 4 cyl AT
Mods are:
Not enough

make sure you put a long bolt or pole inside the hole then place the puller off of that.

http://www.howellautomotive.com/Howell/Store/catalog/catalog/product_info.php?cPath=142_38_84&products_id=298

There's an aftermarket pulley a lot of people have.

Tony

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