The Mitsubishi Pajero Owners Club®

[bogblaster]

fitted a new crank pulley today but cant find anway of locking the engine to tighten the bolt up?
its a 2.8 manual.
I cant see any inspection plate where i can lock the fly wheel and the engine just turns over with it in gear and foot on the brake.
any ideas?

how tite should the nut be? will it tighten itself as the engine turns?

[Google]

[SHED]

on the bell housing underneath the inspection plate is ther you have to wedge a screwdriver in the flywheel

[gtvsaviour]

On a manual - if it's in gear - then that 'should' lock the engine via the drivetrain - you turn that over and the thing will move!
Use reverse - just in case  

John

[Paul83c]

You should see this........



The large sump is the oil sump.

[tonkerkie]

As said earlier in this post, especially if its an automatic, as its the only way, get another person to lock the flywheel by removing the lower plate on the bell housing. The torque the 19mm crankshaft pulley bolt to 130 ft/lbs.

[gtvsaviour]

[Mark3]

crank pulley torques up to 230nm or 170lbft

[mimauk]

When I done mine - 2.8 manual - I was on my own so I just got a ring spanner on it and tightened it as hard as I could before it spun and then gave it 3 hefty thumps with a lump hammer.

It's still running ok after 3 years.      

[4ePikanini]

Use fourth gear with handbrake and foot brake.

[Mark3]

It may be worth taking into account the damage that can be caused to crank shaft snout if a crank pulley (harmonic damper) bolt comes undone from not being tightened up correctly



This is the same set up as a 4M40, its a Toyota 7MGTE with harmonic damper pulley that didn't have the pulley bolt tightened up correctly and it wasn't noticed that it was loose for a fair time, the huge gash used to be a woodruff key half moon slot!!!!

[Spacemonkey]

MX5s have the same problem, usually because the early 1.6 torque setting is used on the 1.8, so it wobbles and wears. The accepted fix is to clean the slot, fix a new woodruff key in place and fix with chemical metal to fill the gaps and secure the key. File to fit properly, and use a certain loctite to secure the new pulley, and threadlock the new bolt. I did mine on my MX5 thanks to a so called specialist using the wrong torque figure, and torqued it with the in gear and brake method. Did thousands more miles like it, no problems.

[trekker]

Have a look in Search, Crankshaft holding tool 2.5. You'll find a pic, and a sketch of the holding tool dimensions which I made up, fitting is self explanatory.

[cjard]

When I needed to do mine I drilled a hole through the pulley towards the outer rim, put a steel rod into the hole then used a bar to brace between the steel rod and the chassis. The only ill effect from having done so was that it exasperated Mark3 somewhat

[hutchy]

i always remove the starter on manuals and the inspection plate on auto,s and fit a pry bar in there,i used to use the old put it in gear,but found it can put strain on the chain or timing belt

[NeilG]

On my '96 2.8 the pulley(s) (old and new) have two holes for a holding tool. I made said tool from 40mm angle bent to about 110deg at one end and drilled for two bolts - worked a treat. (Shame about the woodruff key saga - see my post about this).

Neil.