Pulley removal to get timing cover off

[AndrewS2]

Hi,

Progress continues on my engine rebuild, but one thing continues to thwart me. I've found a couple of threads on this subject by searching, but none seem to come to any conclusion of how people have finally managed to do this...

Basically I need to get this pulley off, to be able to remove the timing cover to scrub and paint it. As you can see, it's in quite a bad way where the water pump fits. It's really full of clud behind the pulley and I just can't get at it to clean.

I've invested in 2 pulley removers, but neither fits the thread correctly (too big to fit up central hole) and the original pulley bolt isn't long enough to reach it's thread and get anything else behind the head to pull with.

Has anyone successfully achieved this, and if you have how did you do it? Really nervous about breaking the pulley... If anyone has the correct pulley tool and is willing to lend it to me, I'll happily pay the postage!!

Current state in picture below




Cheers,

Andrew

[AndrewS2]

Exactly what I needed guys, thanks very much. I'll see what I can come up with and post back with the results!!

May also be worth adding to FAQs?

Andrew