Hey everybody, I am trying to remove the crank bolt on my 1jz to replace... well a bunch of stuff on the front end. Anyway, I've gone through trying to crank the engine by laying a breaker bar on the frame to break the bolt thread engagement but it's just not coming off after countless tries. I suspect a loss of compression...
I want to stay away from putting a wrench on the cam gear because I don't want to use the timing belt to immobilize the crank (for obvious reasons).
I was wondering if there was some sort of alternate method to immobilize the engine other than laying the breaker bar on the frame or the ground? What I'm looking for is some sort of a "boot" type device that can latch on to the crank pulley or dampener that will keep it from turning when I put a breaker bar and very large pipe on it.
I will tell you, keeping the serpentine belt on the accessories and jamming up one of those pulleys has been unsuccessful. Thanks for your help.
