Crankshaft

Maurice Moynihan

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I'm trying to remove the main crankshaft bolt (engine still in place) but unable to budge it. Two questions ,do I rotate left to right or right to left, secondly , any easy way to recover a rocker cover but that's dropped done the engine beside the timing chain. All help would be much appreciated.
 
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I'm trying to remove the main crankshaft bolt (engine still in place) but unable to budge it. Two questions ,do I rotate left to right or right to left, secondly , any easy way to recover a rocker cover but that's dropped done the engine beside the timing chain. All help would be much appreciated.
 
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Meant rocker cover nut.
 

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Thats a buxxer.sorrio anticlockwise.
 
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Thanks, much appreciated
 

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When you tighten its normally x torque plus x degrees .not as complex as seems.
 

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You need to find a way to lock the crankshaft. The bolt is FT (a little more than fairly tight) - I seem to recall 275NM plus 90 degrees!).
It's normal right hand thread so righty tighty, lefty loosey.

As for the dropped nut a magnet on a stick would be my first tool to reach for - something like this:
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