im gonna say clockwise, but i will let someone with a bonneville confirm that

Clockwise..

Counter could loosen a main bolt in the center of the balancer

Get this. The main bolt took a 1 1/8th socket to fit it, not the normal 22 or 24mm ( can't remember which one). I tried like a SOB to take of the main bolt, I did the put the socket on it and hit it with a BFH to loosen the locktite stuff that is put on from factory, tried my impact, tried a breaker bar with another BFH, and NOTHING.

So in my case I guess it doesn't matter, lol. I was trying to take it off to put my new harmonic balancer on it from my blown engine.

Well it'* ALIVE, sorta. I did have a coolant leak as I was filling it up prior to starting it, but fixed that. It was the coolant tube that comes out of the block and does a 180 and goes through the bottom of the TB ( what a STUPID design).

Used a ratchet and turned the engine over a few times to get it lubed up, then I unplugged the ECM and cranked it over a few times ( stopping as to not burn out the starter, cause I did enough work on it for now, LOL), waited till I seen oil pressure climbing nicely, then plugged the ECM back in and tried to fire it up, ( as you will see in the video). I now have a small oil leak though. It is the oil filter adapter, I made sure I cleaned it up nicely before re-installing it ( the new engine had a regular adapter, and mine had the tubes that run to the rad).

My friend suggested that I try and re-torque it now. So I will try that tomorrow, along with getting a new gasket, if that fails, I will let the garage do it when they install the new accumulator for the AC.

It took a few minutes but the engine is way quieter than what you hear in the video.

Right click and save target as, I also reduced the quality of the video for downloading purposes.

http://www.friedpoodle.com/bonnemeet2005/itsalive.wmv

glad to see that she is back in action...you must update your sig pics now....

Well, you got there before I did. I had hoped to get mine going tonight, then turned out I had to work late, now I need to get ready for an out of town trip tomorrow. So, I won't get back to mine until Thursday at the earliest.

Congrats on the progress.

yay

I will wait till it hits the road to update the sig pics, and my red sig text, lol.

I hope to fix that oil leak tomorrow ( damn gasket) and maybe get the hood back on and take it for a test drive or 2 or 3.

Have to take it easy with it though, I don't want to BREAK it in, LOL.

Congratz........

Having killed an engine in my 91..... I know what it'* like to bring it "back to life"....