DC_Gearhead
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So I read a bunch of posts about how hard it is to do this and how people damaged their radiator during the process. I just finished replacing mine and it wasn’t bad. I didn’t even open my hood to do it. A little bit of patience and an assortment of bolts for the puller were about all I needed. I used one of those crows foot pullers that looks like a steering wheel puller ($20 from Advanced Auto). I’d say easy, but don’t want to insult anyone out there. I had to get creative with the bolts once it started getting close to coming out, by replacing the long ones with short ones, but it only took me like 20 minutes to get it off including rummaging through old bolts. Then when I went to put it back on, I just put the new harmonic balancer in the toaster oven for 15 minutes at 250 degrees and it slipped right on and the center bolt pulled it down tight.
I almost pulled the radiator and grille based on threads on here, but the spacing between my radiator, fan, and pulley were enough to allow me to do it without all that extra work.
That being said, you should check it out before you make it into a huge job. I did mine in less than an hour and I had never done it before. It was the original balancer from the 69 351w so it wan’t in the best shape.
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I almost pulled the radiator and grille based on threads on here, but the spacing between my radiator, fan, and pulley were enough to allow me to do it without all that extra work.
That being said, you should check it out before you make it into a huge job. I did mine in less than an hour and I had never done it before. It was the original balancer from the 69 351w so it wan’t in the best shape.
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