[s-cars] Removing Fan Clutch

[Tom Green]

The power steering cap is too flimsy to act as a good holding point  
and a wrench will probably just distort it.  The belt will probably  
slip as well.  My nut is a 32mm.  The nut is tight enough on most cars  
to require an exact wrench size, and a normal wrench probably won't  
give you sufficient leverage to break the nut free.  The special tool  
has a fitting for a breaker bar extention to give some extra leverage  
needed on most.  The special tools include a pin holder for the pulley  
the nut is attached to, but it is marginal at best.  I have better  
luck just impacting the breaker bar extention with a dead blow hammer  
to break the nut loose.  Others have had the experience that the nut  
just doesn't come loose without machine shop type assistance.  YMMV

The tools are designed to remove the clutch nut with the fan still in  
place.  You will need to remove the lock carrier, but if you leave the  
tensioner and belt in place, it may provide the needed resistance to  
allow the nut to be removed by the "impact" method.

Tom '95 S6
          '95.5 S6 avant
Knoxville, TN

On Dec 8, 2012, at 2:49 PM,Tony Curran <tony.curran at sympatico.ca>   
wrote:

> Hi folks,
>
> A question on fan clutch replacement. Can one remove the fan clutch  
> without
> taking the front off the car. I can access the 1 1/4 nut that  
> secures the
> fan clutch to the shaft but by holding the nut of the power steering  
> pump
> pulley will the fan clutch undo? I've got a feeling that it will  
> just rotate
> the shaft.
>
> Any BTDT to assist will be most helpful.
>
> Thanks,
>
> Tony
>
> 96 S6