technocrat
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Lesson learned the hard way about alternator pulley removal.
If you do it wrong like I did, you may end up shearing off a piece of the alternator shaft and feeling like a fool. Add another screw-up to my wealth of experience.
Fellow armchair mechanics please take note of this and understand exactly what you are loosening and what you are holding still. The longer thinner tool slides into the alternator shaft end to prevent it from turning. The shorter and wider piece with the many splines is what grabs hold of the pulley so that it can be spun off the threaded shaft. Relative to the alternator shaft, the pulley unscrews counter clockwise like the big nut it is.Are you turning the tool in the right direction? That would be counter-clockwise. To clarify, you hold the alternator shaft solid with the small bit and rotate the hollow splined tool counter-clockwise.
If you do it wrong like I did, you may end up shearing off a piece of the alternator shaft and feeling like a fool. Add another screw-up to my wealth of experience.