The Crankshaft question continues
Submitted: Friday, Jan 07, 2005 at 02:02
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andrewhamilton
Ok...
Its been a week or so trying to fix this bugger.
The pulley came off while coming
home from holidays. The key was lost and the keyway badly damaged.
See
pic here
http://backyardmissionary.typepad.com/backyardmissionary/images/crank1.jpg
It is an
old car worth $3 or 4 K so I have tried to use devcon to repair the keyway rather than a whole crankshaft fix. The first devcon repair didn't hold. I discovered it had failed when I had to pull the whole lot off to replace the timing cover gasket.
Today I re-'devconed' it but I have very little faith that it will work.
I am wondering if I can weld the key in place, grind it back sufficinetly and then slot the balancer over the whole lot?
Anyone done this successfully?
Another thought was to drill two holes in the crank where the keyway is and slot in 2 high tensile 'dowels' to use as a key.
Right now I am open to all suggestions as pulling the motor out and repairing the crank is not looking like a possibility.
Any thoughts?
Thanks to all who have contributed so far!