Homemade Camry Pulley Wrench

[marc780]

I made this tool to hold the crankshaft pulley. It is used to hold the pulley while removing the pulley bolt. The handle is about 18" long to give plenty of leverage and to brace against the frame, etc.
The two holes are for long bolts to go into the factory threaded holes on the pulley. The holes are made about 2 - 1/4" center-to-center. The big cut out in the center is, of course, to allow the socket to go on the bolt. I would have drilled a big hole but i didnt have a drill big enough - just some scrap metal, a band saw, grinder, and one worn out drill bit of the wrong size.

As a bonus this tool can also be used to hold the camshaft pulley while removing its bolt (when changing water pump etc.) Instead of the two long bolts, two shorter bolts are used for this chore. The shorter bolts used are the kind threaded their entire length, and a nut is screwed on the other side to hold the bolt in place. So it works exactly like Toyota's SST pin wrench.


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[WhiteRabbit]

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does it work well?

[marc780]

Not as well as the Toyota SST but good enough...cheaper too!

[Doctor J]

Looks good.I made similar one but I am using 5/16 inch dowels instead of bolts.

[Digger1]

Marc,

Good job!

Geez! I gotta get me a welder!

[bronzemaxell]

the tool i use to remove the crankshaft bolt on both 5S-FE and 1MZ is a only 1/2 inch socket wrench. place the wrench against something solid, like lower control arm, and dont' even have to pull EFI fuse, sparkplug or anything, put the key in ignition hole, crank the engine for 0.5 seconds, and immediately turn off and remove key, tested and worked very well on camry 2.2L and 3.0L without waste any elbow grease.

[avalonshoe]

i know you are using dowels, but do you know the bolt size the spanner uses to screw into harmonic balancer? there seems to be no answers to this for a 2000 1mzfe. I have to use a makeshift solution to get this to work

[ajkalian]

It looks like we got a "who's on first" thing going on here.

The easiest way to remove the crankshaft bolt, is as someone mentioned above. Put a socket with a long breaker bar, and bump the starter. I would disagree with the guy that said not to remove the EFI fuse.

If the car starts, it could be a real mess with the socket clanking around at 700-1000 rpm's. So do your self a favor and remove the EFI fuse before you try the "starter bump" method. Here's a video on how it's done.

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Now, once you remove the crankshaft bolt, and pulley you will have to re-install and tighten the crankshaft bolt. The engine will turn over at about 80ft/lbs and IIRC the torque spec is like 130ft/lbs. There are a couple of things you can do.

One is to put a little blue Locktite on the threads, and if you have an impact wrench, cinch the bolt down as tight as your impact wrench will go. The crankshaft pulley is tapered and keyed, so there is no way it will slip. And the bolt tends to tighten up over time anyway.

But if you really want to torque the crank bolt to the proper specs, then you will need to make yourself something to hold the damper puller while you tighten the bolt.

DO NOT USE A STRAP WRENCH.

Here's one I made when I did my first Timing Belt change. You will need a welder to make something like this. The tool at the bottom is one made by Lisle and it is for holding the Camshaft pulleys.

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Another TN member did it with gorilla glue or epoxy. Search for "Artie in Miami" for that one.

Full thread is here:

2000 Camry LE 6cyl 1MZ-FE Timing Belt Change


Good luck.

[julyaric720]

It looks like we got a "who's on first" thing going on here.