Tightest Crank Bolt EVER! 80 Series Toyota Land Cruiser 4.5L 1FZ-FE

This was the tightest crank bolt to date I've had to remove.
This is part of a 4.5L 1FZ-FE Blown Engine Teardown. This is the engine found in the 1993-1997 Toyota Land Cruiser and 96-97 Lexus LX450.

My name is Eric and I own and run a full service auto salvage business called Importapart located in the Saint Louis MO area. Part of our model is dismantling and selling parts from rare and niche market engines. I don't build or rebuild engines, we simply supply hard parts to those that do!
Want to see a particular engine torn down? I may have already done one! No really, check out my other videos for the engine you'd like to see! I've made over 60 other teardowns from a Cummins to an LS7, and from Rotary to Ram Ecodiesels. You can expect a new teardown every week!

As always I appreciate all of the comments, feedback and even the criticism.
What will I tear apart next week? Just wait and see!
-Eric

[kclefthanded]

Somehow the breaker bar survived after all this

[timtimtimmay]

The bolt that will live in infamy, and the heavy equipment that tamed it.

[aland]

3/8 in Rachet: "Please come loose."
1/2 in Rachet: "I hope it comes loose."
1/2 in Breaker Bar: "I wasn't asking."
Angle Grinder: "You should have listened."
Oxy Acetylene: "Can't be tight if it's a liquid."

[Bereft]

The levels of escalation were thrilling!

[springguntunes]

NICE! I feel your pain. I've been a mechanic since 1972. Retired now. I enjoy watching you. Please be careful. Cheers.

[litz]

I feel ya with that bolt. Some times brute force is all that’s left.

Several years ago, on a tourist railroad, we were recommissioning an old passenger car. Everything was ready except one step well. The FRA wouldn’t issue a certificate unless the bend in it was straightened.

This was 1/2” plated steel construction. Nothing we had budged it. Chains, comealomgs, heat … nothing.

Then we realized: bend it back the way it got bent in the first place — so we welded a chain around the bottom, coupled the car to the parked train, attached the chain to the locomotive and *pulled*. It moved.

In the end 225, 000lbs of GP9 won the day.

[JamesBrown-gfsc]

That video was one of my favorites! Couldn't believe you had to bring the big guns out to get that bolt lose!

[robwebster]

"Jerry, what's the torque spec on the crank bolt?"

Yes

[Nmdixon-cuvm]

“Give me a lever long enough and I can move the world”
-Archimedes

[rxm]

Crank bolt forked around and found out

[volvo]

"don't use the forklift as a tool"



Some guy in the future.

[beyondmiddleagedman]

Where there's a will, there's an adapter.
Love the sound of the pallet crunching.

[TomPauls]

I want to buy one of those breaker bars!! (Notice on bucket: "never use to depress breaker bars!" )

[marathoner]

I've watched a lot of your tear downs Eric. By far, that one with this scene using the excavator to break loose the crank bolt is my favorite. I laughed my a$$ off when I saw that.

[benaldredge]

That was one of my favorite tear downs

[johnt.]

A man after my own heart, as soon as I saw the pallet break my first thought was use a forklift to hold that engine down.

[surfteach]

Wife comes in the room; "Why are you chuckling? Was there a new Eric?" "Yep..."

[mikekemsley]

Giving credence to the old saying "Don't force it, get a bigger hammer"

[localroger]

I can't wait to see the rest of the teardown.

[MorganBrown]

Holy crap. The hydraulic press channel could learn something from you 😂