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Subject:Re: 3149 Tool for Crank Pulley Removal - What was I thinking?
From:David Bohannan
Date:Fri, 5 Aug 2016 15:30:55 -0400

Not yet, but I will when I get it..should be here on Monday...

By the way for all you naysayers about oil pressure- from what the GoWesty website says about their high volume pump- my van will actually levitate after I put it in...yes, tongue firmly planted in cheek...

Dave

> On Aug 5, 2016, at 3:07 PM, Stacy Schneider <vwcrewman@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
> If you read the Bentley they tell you that you can damage the crank by not using the 3149 to hold the pulley.
>      I bought one one years ago when I built my 1.9 and it's been sitting so long I lost a piece for it. 
>       When you put the larger pump in did you check the clearance between the gears and the surface of the pump with a feeler gauge?
> 
>                           Stacy
> 
> Sent from my iPhone
> 
>> On Aug 5, 2016, at 7:42 PM, David <fjazzbass@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
>> 
>> So I'm in the middle of the odyssey to remove the oil pump and to get to
>> the thing I have to take off the crank pulley... Ha ha, Bentley joke...3149
>> tool?!
>> 
>> Ha ha trying to use an impact on that 258 foot pound bolt...
>> 
>> Ok guys...not trying to work harder, but smarter...and you all are my
>> brains at the moment...
>> 
>> What have you all used? I have tons of clearance because I've taken
>> everything out of the way...
>> 
>> Thanks!
>> 
>> Dave
>> 85 GL 1.9er...