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If you can get a torque wrench that would be best, you will need to torque it to 111 lb/ft then get a breaker bar and do your best guess as to tightening it another 76 degrees from when the torque wrench clicked at 111 lb/ft.


so torque first then use breaker bar and tighten more.

But just make sure that the crankshaft pulley is seated correctly before tightening.
 


Sven using a torque wrench when degree tightening is not usually good for the torque wrench, spec is torque first to 111 then tighten 76 degrees.
 
How to set up the installer tool

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Buddy I hate to say it but you are chasing your tail, you don't really need one of these install tools. All you need to worry about is the woodruff key. Then you can tighten the **** out of the harmonic balancer bolt.
 
I would not use that kit on the car, it should not work. The puller you used was fine, you need to check the woodruff key (the little key deal that is on the crankshaft) and make sure to tighten the crankshaft pulley bolt good after you recheck everything.

And after checking I realized like most gm crankshaft bolts it is torque to yield, honestly you should buy a new one and torque it correctly but here is a recommendation for reusing a torque to yield bolt.

If you reused the old bolt just torque it to 111 ft/lbs because it has already been stretched. Put some moly grease on the friction surfaces and that should be sufficient, but torque to yield means once it is torqued on you then stretch the bolt into place, once you loosen it, it has lost a fair amount of tensile strength (the rating for all bolts as a measure of how much torque it takes to get to its failure point, you want to stretch it to the optimum point just before distortion as this gives the best "holding").

 
We wen through the woodruff key over the last few pages, he posted a pic and it's there, but I don't know if he's putting the balancer on with it or anything.
 


The woodruff key was in there the whole time, right? If it was, it's time to move on to troubleshooting something else.
 
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