Am I Fu*ked

[GAVN8R]

So this weekend I went to do the timing belt job, which was going fine until I went to take the crankshaft pulley bolt off, but it was so tight that the flywheel locking tool snapped and is somewhere lost in the flywheel casing. Am I going to have to pull my whole trans to fix this? any ideas? Also liabilty wise do you think i could get the manufactor to pay for labor if necessary would would prefer not to have to do all the labor...

 

[daloonie]

Depends. Is the tool magnetic? A long magnet could possibly save you an ordeal to take off the transmission. But it is a tight squeeze.

 

[TyphoonFiST]

Get a Borescope and tape a small magnet to the end near the scope tip and use that to see If it has any steel in it. If it is aluminum put a sticky tape on the head of the scope and try to stick it to the Broken metal.