What size socket is the crankshaft bolt on a '61 289? I can't get a good line of sight to measure it. It looks like about 1 1/2", but I have to buy a socket and I want to get the right one the first time. Thanks- Jim
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Originally posted by Alan View PostThat it is, but bend the tab back or you will be cursing me that it doesn't fit.
The following couple of days of throbbing pain and healing, could lead to an outpouring of your entire vocabulary of "not so family friendly" expressions.John Clary
Greer, SC
SDC member since 1975
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I just purchased a 6 point 1 1/2" socket but it was a 3/4 drive so I had to buy an adapter 3/4 to 1/2. It is much easier to turn the engine from underneath and save your knuckles and yes bend the tab out if it was ever set in the first place.
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The tab is on a lock plate under head of this bolt
It is bend over the hex head of the bolt and sometimes hard to see but it will prevent you from putting a 1 1/2 socket on the head of the bolt.
Bend the tab back and you are good.
Robert Kapteyn
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