please help with fan clutch

**robznob11** · 03-22-2010 10:04 PM

well i got a 6.0 im working on and i want the stock fan gone. i took my old clutch tool and drilled holes in it and welded in some pieces of concrete bits to make a spanner. i have bowed up enough to break it (the tool ) several times in both directions and it wont budge. is there a trick to this guy on net said it breaks to left if your standing in front of engine guy at gm shop said to the right. I put enough on it both ways im amazed something did not break. why did they decide to put small holes in the pully as a place to grab it. i even taped pretty good with a hammer both ways to try to break it nope. I dont want to ruin the pully and pump trying to get it off and im afraid heat will trash the pump bearing....

**foggy** · 03-22-2010 10:22 PM

It loosens to the left.

**country_3030** · 03-23-2010 12:19 AM

The best way I have found is a good 12inch crescent wrench and a large hammer. Don't ask me why, because I can't explain it but a dead pull with a piece of pipe on the darn thing won't work. However, whacking the wrench with a large hammer will get it loose just about every time.

**6stringer** · 03-23-2010 05:43 AM

Lol I ran into the same thing. I even got the gm tool and still nothing. So I sawzalled the mofo off at the end. Ran a cut wheel carefully down the side of the nut and it came off easy as pie. Struggled with it for 5 hours, and my method took 45 minutes, had way more room and no cussing