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The ATT is on! And I blew an injector on the way home? OR, My weekend with Leroy :)

Hrmmm... I'll give it some more thought around the long Christmas holiday. I'll have to see if my pry bar is the right length, otherwise I can hopefully buy the right one. Yeah, my cheater bars were made from some small metal fence post I've hacked down to size (24"?) that I've used very well before, and I can hack down something longer if needed. I would plan to tackle this from underneath sans-jacks or ramps, btw. Would I need to source new pulley bolts? Would these even be at Home Depot? I imagine I need a new HB bolt from the dealer.

On the exhaust, Leroy confirmed I don't have the hanger issue so maybe I can do that too. A good bit of this comes down to time, at the moment.
 
You will need a cheater bar about lenght of floor jack handle, and work is from above with shroud and fan removed. I got the pry bar from HF and cut flat wide part off so it would fit in the core support hole. Home depot has right size bolts, but if I recall, they were to soft and bent easily. The proper grade bolts deformed as well but got the job done. The HB bolt was reusable as were the the oem pulley bolts. I believe the threads of pulley bolts are same as exhaust studs. It was cheaper to buy bolts and cut heads off to use for exhaust studs. I had extras and sacrificed those IIRC. That was a while ago, so may be mistaken. Leroy is correct in hour half time frame. You will gain confidence in your wrenching abilities from this task. I got better from wrenching on my 6.5 than any of my gassers over the years.
 
Well the truck is down anyway so I'd take a minute and see if you can break loose the HB bolt from underneath. Thats how I do mine. Never had a problem in needing special tools. The bolt may come out without much fus.
 
For removal of the HB bolt I would use an impact. No backup bar needed then.
 
Yeah, I always just use the magic of ingersol rand 1/2" impact to pull the bolt. iirc the torque is 200 foot pounds- nothing to an impact. When I install I will still use an impact to get it close then switch to a wrench to get proper final torque. After building a few thousand engines, ya kinda start using the quicker methods available. Never one failure.
 
Thanks. No impact wrench here, so I'll be relying on the feats of manual torque and bravery. Hopefully I can do this from below as it seems, as I'd rather not strip the fan and bits out. Seems like a better/shorter angle anyway. That is, if I can get that length of breaker bar underneath to loosen it. Time will tell, hopefully before New Year's. I'll plan to use the stock bolts if they look to be in good shape (so far so good).
 
It always amazes me that that bolt with all that torque spins right off with a burst of impact.
 
Sentinelist said:
Thanks. No impact wrench here, so I'll be relying on the feats of manual torque and bravery. Hopefully I can do this from below as it seems, as I'd rather not strip the fan and bits out. Seems like a better/shorter angle anyway. That is, if I can get that length of breaker bar underneath to loosen it. Time will tell, hopefully before New Year's. I'll plan to use the stock bolts if they look to be in good shape (so far so good).
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:confused: Move a "good" impact to #1 on your holiday season "gimme" list. Harbor freight will not do, you need a good expensive one as the HF ones won't knock the HB bolt out. (HF units don't have the balls to do the job.)

You are really suffering to own a 6.5 or any truck this age without a good impact and impact socket set.
 
X2 on all HF airtools. Your lucky if any of them work right out of the box. I only buy stuff there, if I plan on using it once, cause chances are, thats how long they will last. Some of their impact sets hold up as I needed one to remove water heater elements and could not get myself to mill the chamfering off the end of a USA socket.
 
I had pretty good luck with my HF earthquake 1/2" drive impact. After being around a few older name brand ones the HF one I have has more umph than they did. Maybe I just got lucky.
 
I bought a second set of airtools(HF) to use at my GF's house so I wouldn't have to cart my tools back and forth. Most got returned broken out of box and the rest are so unreliable, that I still cart most of them around. The ones that works like it should is the air scraper for removing seamsealer and the air scaler for chipping weld beads. 4 out of maybe 15 work, the random orbit sanders work as well.
 
ak diesel driver said:
I had pretty good luck with my HF earthquake 1/2" drive impact. After being around a few older name brand ones the HF one I have has more umph than they did. Maybe I just got lucky.
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I've heard good reviews about that impact as well. 700 ft/lbs torque there about?
 
You guys are gonna get me to take the bait:). Its a good thing I don't need one. I'm savin up for a plasma cutter, name brand though.
 
In one place they claim max torque at 700 ft/lbs, then they say torque range is 50-500 ft/lbs.

Your wrist appears to be correct.:)
 
actually it's set up for full torque in reverse and adjustable output in forward. Personally I think they're numbers are a little high
 
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