Crank Bolt Movement
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Racer
Joined: Mar 2014
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From: Garland Texas
Crank Bolt Movement
Been fighting a belt high pitched “whine” under heavy acceleration and now a chirp that has turned into a squeal. The chirp/squeal is before it gets warmed up. I have cleaned all my pulleys, all pulleys look perfect in alignment, and gave a new belt to put on.
question is, with no belt on, and in neutral, should I be able to move my crank bolt counter clockwise/clockwise maybe a 16th of an inch with my fingers?
thanks!
steve
question is, with no belt on, and in neutral, should I be able to move my crank bolt counter clockwise/clockwise maybe a 16th of an inch with my fingers?
thanks!
steve
Drifting
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From: Denver, NC
If you have the strongest fingers in the world and the crank is turning with it yes, in all other cases no, the bolt should in NO way be loose.
Last edited by Ed Ramberger; Nov 5, 2020 at 10:03 PM.
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Racer
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From: Garland Texas
It’s not like it’s loose to where I can screw it out. It just rocks clockwise/counterclockwise a tiny bit, maybe a 16th of an inch. I can get a wrench on it at an angle just to see if I could loosen it but it wouldn’t budge. Of course I didn’t have enough leverage but if it was loose it would have unscrewed I would think. I’m going to retry once I have the belts back in and in gear.
thanks!
thanks!
Drifting
Joined: May 2008
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From: Denver, NC
It’s not like it’s loose to where I can screw it out. It just rocks clockwise/counterclockwise a tiny bit, maybe a 16th of an inch. I can get a wrench on it at an angle just to see if I could loosen it but it wouldn’t budge. Of course I didn’t have enough leverage but if it was loose it would have unscrewed I would think. I’m going to retry once I have the belts back in and in gear.
thanks!
thanks!
Race Director
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It’s not like it’s loose to where I can screw it out. It just rocks clockwise/counterclockwise a tiny bit, maybe a 16th of an inch. I can get a wrench on it at an angle just to see if I could loosen it but it wouldn’t budge. Of course I didn’t have enough leverage but if it was loose it would have unscrewed I would think. I’m going to retry once I have the belts back in and in gear.
thanks!
thanks!
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Racer
Joined: Mar 2014
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From: Garland Texas
More to the story. After I got the new belt on and cranked it up everything is nice and quiet now. However, I can now, with my fingers, rotate the bolt left/right almost a complete revolution. I imagine if I could get a socket on there I could continue loosening it. Harmonic balancer is on there solid. Having it looked at in a week or so when I can get it in. Going to do a cam at that time as well.
thanks for all the responses!👍
thanks for all the responses!👍
Last edited by 2003RedVette; Nov 6, 2020 at 05:14 PM.
