TD5 Viscous Pulley Holder Tool

[billymon]

Hi Everyone,

I'm having trouble removing my viscous fan to replace my alternator on a disco td5 and was just wanting to know if anyone in the Melbourne area had a viscous pulley holding tool to hold the pulley whilst I crack the viscous fan nut.

Just need to borrow one for an afternoon

I'm in Fitzroy but am willing to travel to pick it up.

[bsperka]

Are you turning it the right way. Left hand thread iirc?

[billymon]

Yeah, turning it anti clock wise looking from the front of the car.I've used a 10mm spanner on the pulley nuts to hold the pulley and have banged the 36mm spanner with a hammer. No luck.

[billymon]

Solved the issue without buying a LR specialty tool. I ended up using a bicycle lock ring tool that I had laying around. Works an absolute treat. You sit the tooth around one of the pulley nuts and let the tool sit on another nut. This will give you plenty of grip on the pulley and using the 36mm spanner I just twisted the two in opposite directions and it cracked.

Any good bike store should have a lock ring tool and it will only cost about 10 - 20 bucks.

[Phil HH]

I made a proper (albeit rough) holding tool just today. If I used your lateral thinking I could have saved myself the trouble by using the suspension-adjusting "C" spanner in my motorcycle's tool kit.
Now, with the alternator out of the Disco TD5, and diagnosed as terminal (worn slipring), I'm researching a source for a new one.




By the way, for anyone making a holding tool, you need something with three 12mm holes 65mm apart, and a 42mm gap in the middle to fit over the big nut.

(R.H. thread, Perka)
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[Phil HH]

T.R. Spares in Sydney for the alternator (and associated bits). Good price and I had them the next day.