Lisle 77060 17mm Harmonic Balancer Socket

Purchased to remove Infiniti QX60 crank bolt. I had fought this bolt and and was definitely losing. I tried 2 different impact guns on it and they were starting to round the corners of the bolt. Id heated it, soaked with penetrant for a week, had a 2 foot breaker bar with a 2 foot cheater pipe and 300 pounds of humans on the other end and this bolt just laughed. As a last ditch effort before giving up and cutting the bolt, I bought this socket. Used a small propane torch to put a little heat into the bolt, put this socket on the old $129 harbor freight (Bauer) 1/2 impact and within about 4 seconds I had the bolt out! Did all my previous work help loosen it? Possibly but I don't care. Nothing was working, brought this and now the bolt is out. Happy as can be!

Made quick work of getting the harmonic balancer off of my wife’s Honda Odyssey. So much easier using this with an impact than any other method.

Great quality socket.

Works great.

I just replaced the timing belt on my Honda Odyssey. As I am not a professional mechanic, I first watched hours of YouTube videos of people doing the same thing. Virtually everyone said that the most dificult part of this job was removing the Honda crankshaft bolt. No one knows what type of soul-crushing wizardry is employed at the Honda factory to tighten that bolt, but it is known to be almost impossible to remove, often breaking tools and hurting people as they tried.In fact, some of the videos that I saw suggested that if you couldn't get that crank bolt off, your mechanical skills weren't worthy of doing the rest of the job and you had best just send back your parts and drop $2K at the Honda dealer's service dept, where the tech will heat that bolt up with a torch to get it off, likely damaging the rubber parts inside the crank pulley, but it's not his car, so he won't care.I saw a couple videos of people using this tool (as well as some heartbreaking ones of people that didn't). Most of them just used their impact wrenches to break this bolt loose in seconds. Didn't look so hard to me, so I ordered this Lisle 77080 socket to get some advantage in my undeclared war against this crankshaft bolt. Fortunately for me, some frugal type had used this particular tool and then sent it back to Amazon, allowing me to get it as a Warehouse Deal item for $5 off or so. Having once been poor myself, I try not to judge, and since I received a benefit from their cheapness, it was a win-win. It's not like the socket could have been damaged or anything. You could run a tank over it and it would be fine.So what IS this thing? It's a 1/2" drive 19mm socket. Wait, you say. You already have a 1/2" 19mm socket? No. You don't have THIS socket. It's easily three times the thickness and weight of your puny Harbor Freight impact socket. The mass of the socket is designed to put more of the bang-bang from your impact tool into the target of your wrath. It's a deceptively simple solution to a problem that many people have found insurmountable. This bit of metal, dropped to Earth by the Engineering gods, claims to be able to loosen that Honda crankshaft pulley bolt without heating, special tools, cursing or Macumba.My experience: I hit the bolt's mating surface with some PB Blaster and went in to have breakfast. An hour or so later, I applied my 120v plug-in Porter-Cable electric impact wrench to the bolt, through that magic socket. For about sixty seconds, the tool bucked in my hands, working as it hammered away at the unyielding bolt. When I started to smell weird electrical smells from my impact wrench, I figured that was enough. Putting the impact wrench aside to cool, I sprayed more liquid slipperyness on the bolt and went inside for a second cup of coffee - a highly recommended perk of early retirement. After thirty minutes, I went out for a hopeful second go at the famous bolt. This time, it didn't last ten seconds before it came spinning off.Easy as freaking pie. If I could do this, you can do this.

You’ll see people using that goofy looking attachment to hold the harmonic balancer still while using regular socket and ratchet to try and break the bolt loose on the harmonic balancer.. it’s painful to watch. You will not have to use heat if you buy this! I’ve used this on two projects so far. First was a 1994 Honda Accord with an f22b2, and second was a 2007 Honda pilot with a 3.5 V-tech. In both instances, I was able to get the bolt out in about five seconds. I used it on my half-inch drive Milwaukee impact. Between the impact and the socket, it’s an unstoppable duo for those bolts. I still recommend soaking the bolt in your favorite penetrating oil the day before, ( I use PB blaster personally) But even if you don’t, I’m sure this will still get it out with ease. This isn’t the cheapest version of the socket on Amazon by any means, but I do think there’s a reason for that. Even though the others that I’ve bought measured the same as this, this one is definitely heavier. The reason you’re buying the socket is for the weight, might as well get the heaviest one you can! I think the extra money is well worth it in the time it saves.

I was worried as this didn't fit inside the harmonic balancer holder tool, but it provided so much torque that it didn't matter-- no holder needed! While my impact gun chewed on the regular socket forever without budging the bolt, this thing removed it within 2 seconds. I was amazed.

Perfecto muy recomendable