Yeah lol have 40 hours of labor on several cars sold in 20 min. It’s called get it done. It ain’t broken lol block isn’t stripped out. Your probably the guy with the craftsman hitting it for 20 min.
My niece drives an older Honda CRV. When she bought it she had timing belt replaced and of course the harmonic balancer was removed and replaced in the course of the service. Within a year the harmonic balancer came loose while she was up at school in Northern California. She took it to a local shop. They said she was lucky the crank was intact though the balancer was shot. Luckily this occurred while she was in a parking lot just starting the car. $550 later she was back on the road. 6 months later, at a new school in Southern California she's on the on ramp to get on the high way and she loses her power steering and thinks it's locked up. She manages to slow down and get the car to the shoulder. Takes it to the local shop in Southern California and we find out the balanacer has come off again. This time it took out the key slot in the crankshaft thus scrapping the crank. The required repairs are more than the car is worth which sucks as she's working her way through college on minimum wage. Had this happened on a different stretch of the highway we could have lost more than the crank. While I realize this is standard practice for many shops I really wish it hadn't been done in either case on her car. It may work 99% of the time but clearly it doesn't always work. For what it's worth, I live in central California and was unable to see the car after each of these events so I don't know if loctite was used or if it would have made the difference.
I took a perfectly good runing CRV in for a timing belt change too and not the car is totally effed. Been better off not doing anything and prolly would have lasted for years more.
Typically when they do this dumb shit on Honda engines it'll leave an impression on the crank face. The impression causes the crank pulley not to run true, causing wobbling of the pulley.
You could try to get another CRV, hide a camera so it records the work they do. It's a pretty cheap setup to do. $200 you could have 3 cameras hidden recording just in case one fails or the view is obstructed. Also have someone else bring in the car so they don't suspect you. Or try to see if you can see into the shop, they use a camera with a good zoom lens.
Dont do it on a BMW or you will be buying a crankshaft. The torque directly affects bearing clearance on some bmws. Over torquing the bolt will deform the crank and seize the front main bearing.
@@3nigma.3nc they are just built to spec. They are simply not supposed to be touched by clueless people. Funny thing is that everyone seems to think that these problems never exist on any other vehicle
So how do you know it is 245 N·m for example? The biggest problem is that you may break the bolt and then it is not going to be pretty for your customer when they go somewhere else later on.
Do that on a Mazda Series crank. You will be buying a new engine. As it has no crank key. You will hit that starter and drive the Valves right through the pistons.
Just working bro. Just got a GoPro, so I am going to try to make more videos. But content is hard to think of. Just have to start shooting videos for the fuck of it, and see where it goes. Hope work is going well for you bro. Seems like you're keeping busy.
@@RomanAutomotive i have ram them with my impact first i did 30Nm then i need to 180° turn which i couldn't do with the clearence i had i had that with my impact 180 degree turn!! Will that be ok ford 1.6 tdci engine...
you have to torq it for a reason, not for quick fastning, the torq is for the right tightning because of vibration between cranck and pully, if it is not tighten well the pully wil "walk" over the shaft and possibly damage the keyway/ridge on the cranckshaft and a new pully is after the damage hard to dismantle and fitt. be warned. if it is a fuel/gasoline engine the forces are not that hard, but if it is a diesel or gasoil engine take youre time to fit and torq wel. on a 2 liter diesel opel/vauxhall there is a torq of 340 Nm for the pully, this engine is known by problems for misalignment of pully cranckshaft and valveshaft with a lot of starting and power problems, the timingbeltpully wil slight a little later deu to vibrations and the engine runs with difrent kind of obd signs or won't start at all with a falls positief of camshaft sensor not correct. the ECU measure a greater difrence between the time the sensors must see eachother and the engine fails starting, (broken or loose timingbelt safety) it is not possible to tighten this by hand, you have to lock the cranckshaft, and the pully at the same time otherwise it wil change by fastning and you have to start over again with new parts. it took me a couple of days to find out what was rong with the car, sometimes it starts and run fine, and sometimes it would not start at all. 10 times trying 10 times ok, 1 time trying no one home.
Agree completely with your assessment and tightening. As long as you get the bolt tensioned to below its elastic limit and USE a THREADLOCKER, that bolt ain't gonna loosen under normal circumstances. The bolt is just holding the pulley/balancer on.... no axial loads to speak of; and radial loads are handled by the woodruff key.
Hi, have you removed the bolt, or having trouble doing so? Your vehicle uses a chain. If you can fit an impact in there you can use it, if your impact has adjusting torque set it accordingly to or as close to specs as possible, you don't want to over do it.
Bort Tort Thank you for taking the time to reply for my question. I’m gonna work with my Focus 2.0L 2010. It use timing chain system. Have watched several video about Ford and Mazda replaces timing. I’m confusing if I install a metal crank shaft peg to hold the crank while I tightening the crank bold with my impact wrench. Does it safely to the engine’s block or I have to remove the starter to install a fly wheel locking tool? Remove the starter is a mess up in the Focus. Videos said put 74ft/lb on the crank bolt and after add more 90degre breaker bar to make sure crank sprocket and crank shaft doesn’t get slide later. Cam sprockets and crank sprocket without any keyway or mark on them. I’ll plan to do it tomorrow.. If you have any advices , please let me know. Thanks again.
We owned a dealership for 25 years, and our mechanic for the entire time we owned the place would laugh at me (A Young ASE certified mechanic) whenever I questioned what he was doing or told him he was doing something wrong. He said, i can't really explain it to you because I'm not a teacher. He didn't even know how to read!! He always got things done though, and boy could he take a motor apart and put it back together with his eyes blind folded. A real Chevy guy! Didn't even need a manual for anything.... Just his tools and some time. One time he took me out in a 800hp Nova. (Probably 1000hp, Jimmy always tended to lie) and I swear we went from 30mph to over 150mph in a couple seconds. We were on bad tires and the tires burned up the road until about 80mph when he really hooked and started moving. At first i was like, "Okay, it's got more torque than my Lexus. I couldn't spin until 80mph" THEN hr actually hooked and the Nos started to hit. Oh my god, it was the most intense car moment of my life. A new world became known to me that day. The world of true mother f'ing speed. 😂
No. Too tight just means it is even more tightly adjoined to the end of the crankshaft. The only way the pulley won't spin is is if it is NOT adjoined/connected/bolted/fully torqued to the shaft.
Yea well welcome to the hell of modern fucking Torque to Yield crank bolts, what you just did there would either rip the bolt in 2 or not even come close to driving it far enough. I hope you don't do it to your own car, if it has more than 200hp stock.
+jebusDsavior Yes, I know like the Mitsubishi says you can only use them several times, but most these cars are never gonna have it done again. Gets you by if you don't have specs on hand or holding tool.
ATG & I say DO NOT do what from this video unless you are dishonest or don't like your job. if they don't use torque wrench = fired Also, RomanAutomative, dealerships & many dishonest shops also will NOT use Distilled Water when doing coolant jobs.
My car is ruined because that bolt cane loose, meNing they pulley had a wobnle meaning my crankshaft was worn away, they keyway doubled in size snd the gears/sorokets were ruined. New psrts dobt fit on ky crankshaft now, so they car is dead. Having the bolt not toght enough had auite fukked up my life
i just HAND tighten mine ... and let the SPIN of the engine tighten it the REST of the way ... can't make any money if you have to (actually) TIGHTEN everything down ...
Takes 30 seconds to torque it to spec with a wrench. Can't spend extra 30 seconds? Your mechanic skills must really suck since you are not paid enough, so you try to cut corners like this. 1. Not enough torque, engine vibrations loosen pulleys, the engine shakes the entire car. 2. Heat helps loosen too if you don't have enough torque 3. Chances of damaging the threads that will cause it to loosen over time 4. You could damage crank bearings if too much torque 5. Damage the crank with too much torque
Will not br funny when you strip the crankshaft threads or worse yet fracture the metal on the pulley resulting the pulley coming apart in.peices then Ah O Iyou need a new engine
.....and this is why I dont let mechanics touch my car.
Me too
@@watnou346 lol where did you graduate tech school from.
Yeah lol have 40 hours of labor on several cars sold in 20 min. It’s called get it done. It ain’t broken lol block isn’t stripped out. Your probably the guy with the craftsman hitting it for 20 min.
This is the scariest day care ever
My friends 2 girls grew up in a shop and the youngest by age 12 was flying airplanes from Tennessee to Louisiana on weekends 😂 little Cesnas
I used to worked at the dealership 95 percent of mechanic dont torque anything except when there rebuilding an engine
I can guarantee people coming behind you are going to cuss you out 😂
I did mine the same way. Also, I used the same bolt and tightened it down to a witness mark. So far, so good 😅
This is the difference between a mechanic and professional technician that knows why you always should follow the book.
That's how they installed my oil filter
Can't even be bothered to dig out the torque wrench for important/safety critical bolt. Please, please stay away from aircraft......
My niece drives an older Honda CRV. When she bought it she had timing belt replaced and of course the harmonic balancer was removed and replaced in the course of the service. Within a year the harmonic balancer came loose while she was up at school in Northern California. She took it to a local shop. They said she was lucky the crank was intact though the balancer was shot. Luckily this occurred while she was in a parking lot just starting the car. $550 later she was back on the road. 6 months later, at a new school in Southern California she's on the on ramp to get on the high way and she loses her power steering and thinks it's locked up. She manages to slow down and get the car to the shoulder. Takes it to the local shop in Southern California and we find out the balanacer has come off again. This time it took out the key slot in the crankshaft thus scrapping the crank. The required repairs are more than the car is worth which sucks as she's working her way through college on minimum wage. Had this happened on a different stretch of the highway we could have lost more than the crank.
While I realize this is standard practice for many shops I really wish it hadn't been done in either case on her car. It may work 99% of the time but clearly it doesn't always work.
For what it's worth, I live in central California and was unable to see the car after each of these events so I don't know if loctite was used or if it would have made the difference.
Those type of people should be executed
I took a perfectly good runing CRV in for a timing belt change too and not the car is totally effed. Been better off not doing anything and prolly would have lasted for years more.
Alexis Tudor lol man i cant imagine how fucked you felt. Hope you back on the road again brotha!!
Typically when they do this dumb shit on Honda engines it'll leave an impression on the crank face. The impression causes the crank pulley not to run true, causing wobbling of the pulley.
You could try to get another CRV, hide a camera so it records the work they do. It's a pretty cheap setup to do. $200 you could have 3 cameras hidden recording just in case one fails or the view is obstructed. Also have someone else bring in the car so they don't suspect you. Or try to see if you can see into the shop, they use a camera with a good zoom lens.
Awesome mate plain and simple 👍
You know what I like that shit :)Keep up the good work.
Once again, thanks for your Vid, I did everything you explained !
i use a torque wrench tightening it down.
Dont do it on a BMW or you will be buying a crankshaft. The torque directly affects bearing clearance on some bmws. Over torquing the bolt will deform the crank and seize the front main bearing.
That is absolutely correct.
Funny how people talk about the almighty German engineering in cars but in reality they're fragile dogshit.
@@3nigma.3nc they are just built to spec. They are simply not supposed to be touched by clueless people. Funny thing is that everyone seems to think that these problems never exist on any other vehicle
I'm here for the comments 😂😂😂
So how do you know it is 245 N·m for example? The biggest problem is that you may break the bolt and then it is not going to be pretty for your customer when they go somewhere else later on.
Do that on a Mazda Series crank. You will be buying a new engine. As it has no crank key. You will hit that starter and drive the Valves right through the pistons.
DUMBO it can only happen if you remove the timing chain or timing belt otherwise no way piston and valve will touch
Buy motors like I do that they no matter if you jump time will not hit each other 😂 but I agree he shouldn’t do that it will bite hard eventually
Been doing the exact same for years, never been a problem. Although I did see my coworker hammer one on to long and sheared the bolt head.
+Hoaxs Wow, that is not good. Thanks for the input brother.
+RomanAutomotive I feel the bolt may have been defective or maybe stretched prior to it shearing. Cause it did extract very easy.
Love your Vid. That’s exactly what I will be doing. Harmonic Balancer (Crankshaft Pulley did’n’t even move while using a Impact Drill.
Did you use the same crankshaft, pulley bolt?
I've never torqued crank bolts. I've always ran them in with an impact. Never an issue, not once.
+Thomson85 Yeah, I wouldn't run them down with a 3/4 but this has never failed me. So, how you doing brother, everything good?
Just working bro. Just got a GoPro, so I am going to try to make more videos. But content is hard to think of. Just have to start shooting videos for the fuck of it, and see where it goes. Hope work is going well for you bro. Seems like you're keeping busy.
@@RomanAutomotive i have ram them with my impact first i did 30Nm then i need to 180° turn which i couldn't do with the clearence i had i had that with my impact 180 degree turn!! Will that be ok ford 1.6 tdci engine...
Guess what you cannot do this to every car. Skipped timing on a chain doing this
Man love it I just put one on a grand am.ha ha same way.hell yeh.never come loose keep it real
spot on brother
you have to torq it for a reason, not for quick fastning, the torq is for the right tightning because of vibration between cranck and pully, if it is not tighten well the pully wil "walk" over the shaft and possibly damage the keyway/ridge on the cranckshaft and a new pully is after the damage hard to dismantle and fitt.
be warned.
if it is a fuel/gasoline engine the forces are not that hard, but if it is a diesel or gasoil engine take youre time to fit and torq wel. on a 2 liter diesel opel/vauxhall there is a torq of 340 Nm for the pully, this engine is known by problems for misalignment of pully cranckshaft and valveshaft with a lot of starting and power problems, the timingbeltpully wil slight a little later deu to vibrations and the engine runs with difrent kind of obd signs or won't start at all with a falls positief of camshaft sensor not correct. the ECU measure a greater difrence between the time the sensors must see eachother and the engine fails starting, (broken or loose timingbelt safety) it is not possible to tighten this by hand, you have to lock the cranckshaft, and the pully at the same time otherwise it wil change by fastning and you have to start over again with new parts.
it took me a couple of days to find out what was rong with the car, sometimes it starts and run fine, and sometimes it would not start at all. 10 times trying 10 times ok, 1 time trying no one home.
Hahahahahaha true and 100% with you on this one! But also knock on wood just in case 😘👍
Lol thank you for showing the dirty secret lol I still torque mine after tho lol.
Agree completely with your assessment and tightening. As long as you get the bolt tensioned to below its elastic limit and USE a THREADLOCKER, that bolt ain't gonna loosen under normal circumstances. The bolt is just holding the pulley/balancer on.... no axial loads to speak of; and radial loads are handled by the woodruff key.
Been doing that for 32 yrs Foreign and domestic. not one problem!
Bort Tort do you have any good ideas for crank pulley bolt in Ford Focus SE 2.0L 2010 use timing chain? Can I tighten it with impact wrench only?
Hi, have you removed the bolt, or having trouble doing so? Your vehicle uses a chain. If you can fit an impact in there you can use it, if your impact has adjusting torque set it accordingly to or as close to specs as possible, you don't want to over do it.
Sonny Nguyen hi Sunny, seems my reply did not get to you.
Bort Tort Thank you for taking the time to reply for my question.
I’m gonna work with my Focus 2.0L 2010. It use timing chain system.
Have watched several video about Ford and Mazda replaces timing.
I’m confusing if I install a metal crank shaft peg to hold the crank while I tightening the crank bold with my impact wrench. Does it safely to the engine’s block or I have to remove the starter to install a fly wheel locking tool?
Remove the starter is a mess up in the Focus.
Videos said put 74ft/lb on the crank bolt and after add more 90degre breaker bar to make sure crank sprocket and crank shaft doesn’t get slide later.
Cam sprockets and crank sprocket without any keyway or mark on them.
I’ll plan to do it tomorrow..
If you have any advices , please let me know. Thanks again.
Sonny Nguyen Hi, I must ask a question, what happen to car for you to replace chain?
You can tell me how to change oil seal to a magane 2005 pls
I'm with it
We owned a dealership for 25 years, and our mechanic for the entire time we owned the place would laugh at me (A Young ASE certified mechanic) whenever I questioned what he was doing or told him he was doing something wrong. He said, i can't really explain it to you because I'm not a teacher. He didn't even know how to read!! He always got things done though, and boy could he take a motor apart and put it back together with his eyes blind folded. A real Chevy guy! Didn't even need a manual for anything.... Just his tools and some time. One time he took me out in a 800hp Nova. (Probably 1000hp, Jimmy always tended to lie) and I swear we went from 30mph to over 150mph in a couple seconds. We were on bad tires and the tires burned up the road until about 80mph when he really hooked and started moving. At first i was like, "Okay, it's got more torque than my Lexus. I couldn't spin until 80mph" THEN hr actually hooked and the Nos started to hit. Oh my god, it was the most intense car moment of my life. A new world became known to me that day. The world of true mother f'ing speed. 😂
LexusVIP 400
good to know he's getting deported.
whatthefudge e what? This is a post about my Mechanic. He's American. The supreme court couldn't deport him 😂
Fuck you I swear you are those type of dealers who are trash you guys should be prosecuted and put in jail
No mechanic needs a manual for Chevys 95% of jobs are Chevy so plenty of experience gained quickly
It lose bolt? Very high tighten..?
Love it
This is how I do these with 330Nm for example: 1,85m long lever and 18kg on top of the tip = ~330Nm.
I know that's right bro!!!
Yeah but then how do you take it off was that loctite you put on there?
Put the impact in reverse and it comes right out
i miss your videos Bro :(
I have a 472 motor and my bolt just keeps doing when I went to check for compression. And idea why and what damages that causes?
And what the hell are you even trying to say
This is what almost everyone does haha
Real Quick can you tighten it too tight that it will cause the pulley to not spin?
No. Too tight just means it is even more tightly adjoined to the end of the crankshaft.
The only way the pulley won't spin is is if it is NOT adjoined/connected/bolted/fully torqued to the shaft.
Yea well welcome to the hell of modern fucking Torque to Yield crank bolts, what you just did there would either rip the bolt in 2 or not even come close to driving it far enough. I hope you don't do it to your own car, if it has more than 200hp stock.
+jebusDsavior Yes, I know like the Mitsubishi says you can only use them several times, but most these cars are never gonna have it done again. Gets you by if you don't have specs on hand or holding tool.
ATG & I say DO NOT do what from this video unless you are dishonest or don't like your job. if they don't use torque wrench = fired
Also, RomanAutomative, dealerships & many dishonest shops also will NOT use Distilled Water when doing coolant jobs.
Do what is right.
My car is ruined because that bolt cane loose, meNing they pulley had a wobnle meaning my crankshaft was worn away, they keyway doubled in size snd the gears/sorokets were ruined.
New psrts dobt fit on ky crankshaft now, so they car is dead.
Having the bolt not toght enough had auite fukked up my life
And this is why accidents happen! 👎🏻
If I am going into aluminum, I torque it.
There are mechanics and professional vehicle engineers who take care and pride in their work and follow the specs. You are the former.
>>------------------> I'm calling the Mechanic's Police - RIGHT NOW!!!
I’m doing it
i just HAND tighten mine ...
and let the SPIN of the engine tighten it the REST of the way ...
can't make any money if you have to (actually) TIGHTEN everything down ...
really I can do that with my electric harbor freight impact gun? get back to me bro..awesome..just want a tad more confidence
Yes
Hey now I’ve broke snap on sockets and used 20 year old Harbor Freight sockets that finished the job on a school bus 😂
you should work in a meat market ( your a butcher )
I would hate to see you do this to a customers car
not going nowhere is the problem. Try removing it during the upcoming timing belt change.
JOe Shmoe use impact.
This guy is a duche talking about money fuck him he has no dignity I wanna report him so bad I will dig into his channel
@@borttort3885 Had to pop mine loose with my starter
@@benbrethauer9because of people like this 😂
Takes 30 seconds to torque it to spec with a wrench. Can't spend extra 30 seconds? Your mechanic skills must really suck since you are not paid enough, so you try to cut corners like this.
1. Not enough torque, engine vibrations loosen pulleys, the engine shakes the entire car.
2. Heat helps loosen too if you don't have enough torque
3. Chances of damaging the threads that will cause it to loosen over time
4. You could damage crank bearings if too much torque
5. Damage the crank with too much torque
Ask my exhaust manifold bolts if heat loosened them 😂
@@user-yi3wo5nh8e heat will bake them on and you'll be breaking it off smart guy
Will not br funny when you strip the crankshaft threads or worse yet fracture the metal on the pulley resulting the pulley coming apart in.peices then Ah O Iyou need a new engine
That’s terrible
RIP thrust bearings