200tdi cambelt service, very tight crank bolt!

i have started to strip down to do the cambelt my series land rover that has a 200 tdi lump in it, and have got to the crankshaft bolt.
i think some body builder must of done it up because it is hugely tight!

I have had my electric 1/2 inch snap on rattle gun on it, which doesnt shift it...

i have also tried putting a bar on the nut and the wedging it under the chassis and flicking the starter motor, i have tried that soo many times and still no joy...

Has anyone got any other ideas please????????

only thing left is some heat on the head of the bolt. also try tapping the head with a blunt tool to create some shock

I did mine yesterday. I put wrench against the chassis and starter motored it, and like yours, nothing.

Then i went for gold, fixing the extension bar to the wrench with duck tape (safty first fokes) so it was the right leangth to hit the chassis, and gave it a 90 degree run up at the chassis.

Thanks to the incredibleness of the 200tdi, it fired within that 90 degree turn (wasnt part of the plan; i was shocked and was sure somthing would give), but it dident, it freed the nut and then started undoing it with the fiew extra turns befor i shut if off.


Hows that for lucky?

DO NOT TRY THIS IRRISPONSIBLE CRAZYNESS!!!!!

if yer gonna use the starter, ffs disconnect the stop solenoid first!

Well, if it was that tight (it's supposed to be about 200lb.ft I think) then at least you crankshaft and pulley keyways should be intact, unlike the one I'm working on at the moment, where the crank bolt wasn't anywhere near as tight as it should have been = dead key, nasty mess in keyway.

craig90 said:

i have started to strip down to do the cambelt my series land rover that has a 200 tdi lump in it, and have got to the crankshaft bolt.
i think some body builder must of done it up because it is hugely tight!

I have had my electric 1/2 inch snap on rattle gun on it, which doesnt shift it...

i have also tried putting a bar on the nut and the wedging it under the chassis and flicking the starter motor, i have tried that soo many times and still no joy...

Has anyone got any other ideas please????????

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Right, I had the exact problem a week or so ago. Tried the old starter motor trick with no joy.

In the end I slapped it in 5th gear, yanked the handbrake on, and got my mate to stamp on the brakes. Then using a 3/4" breaker with a 1.5m length of scafold bar and hung from the fooker. In fact it gave way quite easyly once id got the leverage on it!

Good luck!

P.S. I used a 3/4" cus someone advised that they had twisted their 1/2" doing the same trick!

i got the bolt undone friday night!!

heat and shock didnt work sooo......

we borrowed the land rover special engine locking tool from swinnies and lock the engine!

thene we used there 3/4 driver bar with the socket on the end with a trolley jack handle attached! this made the bar 8 foot long!
even though it was that long it took me and a friend to swing on the bar at the same time to undo it!!

everything went beautifully after that though!!

thanks for the imput though!

craig90 said:

i got the bolt undone friday night!!

heat and shock didnt work sooo......

we borrowed the land rover special engine locking tool from swinnies and lock the engine!

thene we used there 3/4 driver bar with the socket on the end with a trolley jack handle attached! this made the bar 8 foot long!
even though it was that long it took me and a friend to swing on the bar at the same time to undo it!!

everything went beautifully after that though!!

thanks for the imput though!

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did you and your mate swing the other way to do it up... sounds like you had fun and you wouldn't want to deprive the next person that has to undo the nut....

craig90 said:

i got the bolt undone friday night!!

heat and shock didnt work sooo......

we borrowed the land rover special engine locking tool from swinnies and lock the engine!

thene we used there 3/4 driver bar with the socket on the end with a trolley jack handle attached! this made the bar 8 foot long!
even though it was that long it took me and a friend to swing on the bar at the same time to undo it!!

everything went beautifully after that though!!

thanks for the imput though!

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Tell us more about this magical engine locking tool you speak of!

How does it work??

stilsons and a scafold pole would either get it undone or wreck it..... all or nothing but it will always get you somewhere!!

Here's the tool for the job... DIFFLOCK - TDi Crank Pulley Locking Tool
These bolts are quite annoyingly tight... and cannot be undone without the vehicle bolted to a chassis, at least mine couldn't... :O

rjblank said:

Here's the tool for the job... DIFFLOCK - TDi Crank Pulley Locking Tool
These bolts are quite annoyingly tight... and cannot be undone without the vehicle bolted to a chassis, at least mine couldn't... :O

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Hrrrmm, I can see the tool, but cant see how the fook it works!

Anyway, I have just come to turn mine over after fitting a new belt and my starter is fooked! So I wouldnt, at this point advise trying to undo the crank bolt using your starter!! Seems to have burnt mine out!

Remove the small bolts inside the pully, bolt the round part inside of the pully using longer bolts. Insert your appropriate sized socket on the end of a long cheater bar. The arm of the tool will get wedged under the chassis, locking the crank in position allowing you to spin just the retaining bolt and not the whole engine.