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Impact on harmonic balancer accidentally!

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Creomod

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Ok I wanted to rotate engine by hand but didn’t want to remove the dizzy soooo I thought let me use the impact,I did and I heard it tourqing and I stopped! Well now I’m turning engine over by hand with wrench and it feels different. Like harder to turn over. Spark plugs out no belt. I left the house and this just occurred to me. Think ,is it possible I tightened the harmonic bolt and that’s what’s causing the resistance. It’s like 30lbs to turn over but I swear it just feels like it has the spark plugs on it. I just built it and I remember I just did valvetrain few months back.
 

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No. An impact is how you tighten a harmonic balancer. A little extra torque wouldn't cause it to turn over harder. Not sure why you would attempt to turn an engine over with an impact.

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revhead347 said:
No. An impact is how you tighten a harmonic balancer. A little extra torque wouldn't cause it to turn over harder. Not sure why you would attempt to turn an engine over with an impact.

Kurt. Being dumb not thinking.
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Unless your impact looks like this:




Then you're probably ok.
 

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It's okay. Many years ago I left the wratchet I used to turn the engine over on the balancer socket, when I started the engine. It hit the radiator hose, and backed the balancer socket all the way out. 2 gallons of antifreeze wasted to pull the radiator back off so I could get the impact back in there to tighten the balancer again.

Kurt
 

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Cute
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revhead347 said:
It's okay. Many years ago I left the wratchet I used to turn the engine over on the balancer socket, when I started the engine. It hit the radiator hose, and backed the balancer socket all the way out. 2 gallons of antifreeze wasted to pull the radiator back off so I could get the impact back in there to tighten the balancer again.

Kurt
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I left a wrench on a cam bolt on a Mitsu Galant GSR...

Cranked it over and completely wiped out a new head... on a new motor...


I win!
 
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revhead347 said:
Cute
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Ahhh... the ultra-portable pocket version.
 

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View: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AGtpxRFb4Do&ab_channel=Carsand
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Noobz347 said:
Unless your impact looks like this:




Then you're probably ok.
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Lol
 

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revhead347 said:
It's okay. Many years ago I left the wratchet I used to turn the engine over on the balancer socket, when I started the engine. It hit the radiator hose, and backed the balancer socket all the way out. 2 gallons of antifreeze wasted to pull the radiator back off so I could get the impact back in there to tighten the balancer again.

Kurt
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This sounds like a very easy way to remove the bolt.
 
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