How to replace a crank sensor

[BillBoost37]

Wraith,

I welcome suggestions/personal insight to things as you are correct...often I have done this too many times or have a term I picked up and ran with that others may not know.

1. Wheel, the wheel is what the tire is mounted on and is held the wheel hub via lug nuts. If someone has other terminology then I'd prefer they learned a little and didn't call the wheel/rim the tire and the tire the rim. Kinda like calling a goldfish an orangefish. It's very close and the same basic thing..but the rest of the world had goldfish.

2. Thanks, I've added a little clarification.

3. Funny you say this..I did this for a few years and have a battered 3/8 extension of 3" to prove it. Short version is the balancer pulling kit has parts in it to do the same. If not.. you got a really crappy puller. I have one from Advance and the pieces are in there to facilitate dealing with that issue. Meanwhile if anyone needs to borrow my battered extension...holler.

[Wraith888]

I totally understand - Now that I've done this job once and have an IR, it seems like a piece of cake. Eventually enough stuff will break on my cars that I'll get to do a job that I've already done once or twice before so I will have work to do that isn't brand-new to me!

1) Point taken and I agree with that, thanks!
2) That clarification looks great!
3) The puller I got was this one - OEM/Harmonic balancer puller kit (27019) | Harmonic Balancer Puller | AutoZone.com

That puller is free to rent from AutoZone - (so maybe it is a crappy puller) and I read that a few guys had the threads from the bolt that comes with the kit (pressure screw) rub against the threads where you take the crank bolt out of. I made sure that all 3 of the anchor bolts that I bought were evenly adjusted, but I figured the 3/8 extension would be less likely to mess up threads than the bolt in the kit.

By the way, I was just looking and I found this set that says it has GM 3300 and 3800 engine bolts in the kit, it looks like the Autozone one but with the bolts, in case anyone finds this useful:

OEM 27019 Harmonic Balancer - Tools - Tool Sets - Home Owner Tool Sets