496 crankshaft balancer bolt size
 

Replacing the crankshaft pulley and the stainless allen bolts broke off in the balancer. No room to drill out the bolts in the boat so need to remove the balancer. Anyone know the socket size (metric)needed to remove the balancer bolt?

Thanks,
Keith

24MM

Thanks! That's what I thought but the largest I had last night was a 22mm and wanted to make sure before I go back at it tonight!

496 Ho
 

hi i have a 28 foot pantera twin 496 ho can anyone tell me wot oil presure should be , these are 2001 motors i have started the motors and got 42 psi at idle aprox cold reved the motors 2500rpm and psi stayed the same this was done with boat on trailer conected to a hose i have electric gaffrig gauges . this is a new boat for me and only just got it back to the UK two weeks ago like to be sure everything is ok befor i put it in the water and give it some stick

Sounds pretty normal. My 496 OP reads around 40 at WOT (5000 rpms) according to the gauge. It is actually running 50+ When verified with my Diacom software.

What Dave said!