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If you don't know me or my car. I have a 1993 Impreza L with EJ18. It has 169,000 miles on it. I have noticed that the harmonic balancer has become unbalanced. I know over time that the rubber dries up and cracks and rubber just fires off the pulley which it them becomes unbalanced, and we all know when any rotational mass that is off balance is bad. Well I was attempteing to take this off and replace with the Suby Sports pulley. The Pulley bolt will not come off. I first loosened it but then it got extremely tight again. So I get about 90 degrees of freeplay with the bolt but at the end of freeplay it gets extremely tight again. I am in the Marines, we have Auto hobby shops with large amounts of tools with ASE certified mechanics on hand to help. They told me the crankshaft was shot but that is because some of the mechanics are anti-import. I was using a breaker bar with a 22mm socket and it was bending at the torque I was putting on the pulley bolt. I am unsure as to which way the bolt has to be turned to come off, but It wouldn't budge anyway. So as of right now when the engine is running it is making a bad grinding noise where the crankshaft rotates. It is obviously tearing up the key. I am not driving it, but had to give it a test. After the test the pulley will not even tighten back up? WTF?
Any reply would be highly appreciated
Thanks
Maximus
Any reply would be highly appreciated
Thanks
Maximus