It is not easy to remove the crank pulley from a V8 (unless yours is loose like GBMUD's) with standard 2 or 3 arm pullers, such as those from Machine Mart because the diameter of the puller is so large that the arms keep flipping off! How this happens is illustrated below.


So by using two thickish plates of steel shaped with a grinder, a 3 arm puller spider and 2 puller arms, a wider puller can be assembled. Slap it over the pulley, turn the screw and off it pops! Oh, but rememebr to put the big cranshshaft bolt into the crank otherwise the bolt will not be long enoiugh (not that I would do something like that )



Ofcourse you could resort to using large screwdrivers or chisels as levers if you don't mind bending the pulley or cracking the alloy timing cover but that is entirley up to you

I though GBMUD has a 200Tdi not a V8 ????????

He dreams of having a V8; problem is likely to be the same; the puller arms tends to pop off unless the pulley is small diameter.

Ofcourse if the pulley is a loose fit this is not needed; in most cases they are not that tight but tight enough not to be budged easily).