I have seen this can be done with an impact wrench, but I do not have one.

So I am wondering if I really need to get the "pulley puller" tool or would I be able to get it off with just the hex key for the bolt??

 

i forget what the stock pulleys are like, but on my alt, i have the hex key center and a nut holding the pulley on. You use the hex key to hold the shaft still then take the nut off, and the pulley comes right off

 

Ok thanks.

Not sure how I am gonna get a socket over the nut while the hex key is in the bolt though.....hmmm....the nut is recessed so I don't think anything other than a socket will get in there....

looking increasingly like the puller tool is a good idea...

 

Ok this is getting really f-ing annoying!
So autozone tell me there is no puller tool for this type of pulley "just undo the nut and it will come off" they say...

Well how the F am I supposed to hold the nut AND a hex key in the same damn place when a wrench does not fit inside the recessed edge to hold the nut and a socket would prevent the hex key from going in???

Sorry to vent but this is ridiculously way harder than it should be to undo one freaking nut/bolt.

Someone please shine your wisdom on me, there has to be a trick to it that someone is not telling?

 

Take it to a mechanical shop and just ask if someone can impact it off for you... they'd likely do it for nothing, it only takes a second. Impact gun is the only good way to do it. And you can buy decent 1/2" electic impact guns for fairly cheap.

 

Yeah, I jut got back from autozone for a second opinion, no help.
Advance Auto did help, said they'll do it for me with an impact.

I did also find a tool for it online (that neither store carries) but it is $50, I could get a cheap impact for less LOL

I am just tringt o be cheap as the unexpected pulley has already added $30 to my total cost that was not appreciated. (why the F it doesn't COME with the smaller pulley on it I don't know....maybe GM trucks that also use them idle higher and don't need the smaller pulley?? who knows...)

Good thing our belts are as easy as belts get, I can just switch i out in their parking lot! ha ha ha