I now sit at a customer's house with my 95 SR and a broken crank bolt. That's about all I can tell at this point. The bolt part that came out has about an inch of threads on it, so it looks like the other end is inside the crank snout...but I can't tell with the pulley still on the engine. My tow is on the way but they may be a while.

I had the bolt style with the long extension on the front, likely a revised part, but not the up to date one. I'll post a picture of it later as I'm on my phone at present.

Dylan, it sounds like we'll be talking in the near future. And Jinstv, I may end up doing a timing belt if I tear down the front at all. We may be speaking more in the near future.

I got lucky on a lot of counts. It's not 110 degrees. I'm in town. And my customer let me use his tools at his house, where I was able to drive. Just don't want to chance the 25 mile drive back home.

Thanks for reading this and for any suggestions you might have in the interim. Hope it never happens to you! Replace those bolts!

John B.


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