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Mike,

You can do the work with the motor on the car.  The head should come off to
make things easier (push it through).

You need to remove the crank pulley and the cover plate the pulley sits on
top in order to get to the #1 cylinder crank bearings.

You better have a powerful gun for the crank pulley bolt .  Breaker bar?
NOT!

Jim
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Ha! no shit! we actually had to weld a wrench to the nut cuz after trying to
get it off its the pully towards the windshield not the front one, that one
comes off easy, we finally spun the bolt, and it was not coming off, maybe it
has to do with the heat and that one plastic thing that the thing catches on...
i dont know, does that make sense?





Jim Chu wrote:

> Mike,
>
> You can do the work with the motor on the car.  The head should come off to
> make things easier (push it through).
>
> You need to remove the crank pulley and the cover plate the pulley sits on
> top in order to get to the #1 cylinder crank bearings.
>
> You better have a powerful gun for the crank pulley bolt .  Breaker bar?
> NOT!
>
> Jim
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<<Date: Wed, 21 Apr 1999 12:27:42 -0400
From: "Michael Pancheri" &lt;&#109;pancheri&#64;TheCambridgeGroup<img src=/i/dc.gif border=0 width=35 height=15>&gt;
Subject: [gti-vr6] Do I need to pull motor to pull crank?/REAL tech

Hey all, specifically Peter, Arthur, Mike, and Veearesix,

I need to pull the crankshaft and one piston/rod assembly out of my
neighbors VR6 with a spun rod bearing. Can it be accomplished with the
motor in the car? I have a pit which allows me to work on the car from
underneath, so we won;t be laying on our backs. We're also going to be
installing some unorthodox pulleys, a set of Kent 264s, and a clutch master
cylinder. All this work leads me to believe it would be easier to pull the
motor out of the car before proceeding. Any opinions would be appreciated


Mike Pancheri>>

Well, I'm not any of the above, but maybe I can help...
The motor does not technically need to be pulled to replace the crank, but it
damn near has to be stripped clean:
The intake has to come off to access the timing chain covers, which in turn
means that the trans has to come out.  The lower chain cover can only be
removed with the trans out, and you'll need to undo the lower timing chain.
Since the subframe has to be pulled to drop the tranny, you'll have nothing
supporting the engine from below, which means you better have a damn good
engine support bar.... or just drop the engine and do it all out of the car!
The head has to come off to pull the pistons if you want (does not if you're
just pulling the crank).

Todd
Air & Water
www.awe-tuning.com

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