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Getting that danged screw on fan off.....

Cranky1

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Not my first rodeo with these but someone must have hammered it tight and by the way the nut looks, they air chiseled it on. I'm getting pretty close to using heat on it but man, hate doing that in the shop and it's raining outside. I moved the hood prop rod to the far edge of the hood to get a better swing at the wrench but so far no good. Right now it's being dosed with a good penetrating fluid and am waiting for it to soak in good but I doubt it's going to help. The China made wrench from a pawn shop that I'm beating on is 15" long so I don't care what it looks like so long as it does the job. Any ideas on other methods to get it off? Man, the ones on my other Dodges were easy to get off. Truck in question is a 96 Dakota but doubt that matters....
 
I always use a big strap wrench to hold the pulley, where the belt rides and then a gig adjustable from HF that I ground a bit off to make narrower. Oh and then a piece of sched 40 pipe for leverage. Works great everytime.
 
Used an air hammer on it and it looks like someone else did at one time. Just hope my pump doesn't start leaking now. Kinda funny that I was able to get the fan loose on my 95 with very little effort. I'm thinking someone used an air hammer to tighten it on the 96. I need to pull the pulley off of the AC compressor for a bearing change and noticed the clutch plate has a broken spring. Don't want to spend 150+ for a new clutch just because the plate needs replacing.
 
Glad you got it off. We have a few different tools at work for these.

A kit like this, but ours is MAC

One like this to hold the water pump pulley

And a kit with 6 different tools like this one to hold the water pump pulley on different engines
 
I just wind up replacing the water pump on them. Probably long in the tooth anyway, and I am too old to be wrestling with that stuff just to save a few bucks. I either switch back to the old style bolt on pulley/pump/fan deal, or run electric fans.
 
Glad you got it off. We have a few different tools at work for these.

A kit like this, but ours is MAC

One like this to hold the water pump pulley

And a kit with 6 different tools like this one to hold the water pump pulley on different engines
I have a set of those and they have worked real good on several later model cars and trucks. Couple of my Dakotas and Cummins too.
 
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