Lisle 77080 19 mm Harmonic Balancer Socket for Honda, Factory

This socket worked great! I had tried two others and bought a new impact wrench. 1,000 lb-ft wouldn’t do it with a typical impact socket. Breaking two 1/2” drive extensions with a breaker bar wouldn’t do it. This socket did it in about 30 seconds. I let it impact for about 3-4 seconds set to loosen, then tapped it set to tighten, then back to loosen. It spun right off. I had cranked on the bolt so much with other impact sockets that the bolt showed fairly significant sign of distress before I used this socket so I was weary of ruining the bolt but this socket is so heavily made that it didn’t seem to deflect at all which prevented the bolt from giving way. In the end I’m super pleased with this socket and it was easily worth the money.

VERY solid and well made- better than expected. This was the little extra that we needed to get the crankshaft bolt off- it worked!

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.

This tool removed my Honda's crank bolt in one second. Before ordering this tool, I had soaked it in penetrating oil for days and tried the Honda specific crank tool, rented from the local auto parts store, with no luck, even going as far as breaking the anvil off a breaker bar in the process. This socket on a Milwaukee impact gun was stupid easy and fast.

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!

Writing this to help other Honda owners. I am doing a timing belt on my 2010 Accord V6, and based on the videos and forum info, this tool seemed like the way to go. FYI, I already own the harmonic pulley holding tool (hex shaped) and used it once a few years back on another Honda...it was a nightmare, and seriously sounded like a 45 cal handgun went off when the bolt finally came loose.Once I got this tool, I figured that I better make sure it works BEFORE I actually start the timing belt job. Getting to the bolt only requires removing the front right wheel and a couple of plastic fasteners and bending the plastic down out of the way. I figured I should make sure I can get the bolt loose, and then I can immediately re-tighten and put the wheel back on until I'm really ready to do the whole timing belt job and water pump ect.First I used my very old Ingersoll Rand 231 (freshly rebuilt) set on 110 psi. Did not work. So I went to Lowes and got a new Kobalt Impact (700 ft-lbs) for about $100. It didn't work. So I watched all of the videos online showing guys zipping that bolt off with their 1/2" impacts and wondered what I was doing wrong. So I drained the air out of my tank, removed a gauge that was directly on the tank, and put my hose there (bypassing the regulator altogether, AS WELL AS ELIMINATING ANY RESTRICTION FROM THE QUICK DISCONNECT FITTINGS). Same thing at the tool end of the hose: removed the quick disconnect fittings and plumbed hose straight to the IR 231. Still did not work. So finally, I put the new Kobalt directly on the hose (now with no restrictions) and guess what. Success.So if you buy this tool, make sure you: number 1: have an excellent impact gun, number 2: use high flow fittings or no fittings (directly plumbed to tank and tool) to eliminate restrictions, number 3: at least 3/8 ID hose. Good flow and a great gun are necessary for this tool to work. But it does indeed work, and is soooo worth the trouble. Hope this helps somebody.

Works great.

Great quality socket.