I know this has to be somewhere here but my Google fu is fubar currently. I've read that the pulley bolt is a normal thread, but somewhere else that it was reverse thread? Obviously one is correct, but which way to loosen the bolt? It looks like I need to use the engine "bump" method to loosen the bolt because of the high torque, but I also forgot to see which way the engine spins before digging in to the full tensioners replacement.
98 XJ8 4.0 NA.
TIA!

 

https://www.jaguarforums.com/forum/x...e-swap-266724/

In the middle of my long thread above you see a picture of the crankshaft pulley - two picture below you see my setup of tightening the bolt in question. This suggests normal thread.

I would have thought that the engine turns clockwise when you look at the crankshaft pulley from the front. But that is easily confirmed: Have someone crank the Jag and look at what it does in the engine bay...

 

The bolt is a normal RH thread.
You can use the starter to loosen. Things can go wrong with that method.
Good luck.

 

Thank you for this. I am following and did read your thread but misread that piece! I thought this was your way of loosening the bolt, not tightening! Reading what I should have read to begin with helped!
(Sorry for not replying sooner, I'm so busy I'm just now about to resume work on this, for a few hours anyway)

 

Engine bump