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Hi, I am swapping water pump out on the 99 sebring. It requires timing belt cover to be removed and I've got to the point where i'm ready to do that but, theres as pulley that has a 22mm bolt that wont turn off. What am I doing wrong or not doing right? Took neg batt cable off, jacked up car and removed pass wheel, put hydraulic jack and piece of wood under oil pan, moved hoses all out of the way, took 3 verticle motor mount bolts out then removed that motor mount piece. Theres 3 other horizontal motor mount bolts on the other motor mount piece it looks like to me and 2 of them dont quite have enough clearance to get them all the way out. Doesnt matter though because that piece of motor mount dolnt seem to move out of my way anyway. I loosened the idler pulley, removed the belt, the pwr steering belt wasnt in there as that pulley had fallen off months ago and never got replaced(i drive this one w nno pwr steering) But now I was going to take the big pulley off. (crankshaft pulley I think you call it) Well, the big 22mm bolt in the middle of the pulley wont turn without the whole pulley turning with it. So I trird to hold the pulley with the belt in one hand, the 22mm box wrench in the other and canty get it to turn. Any suggestions what Im doing wrong this time?? And maybe what I should do from here. Thanks lot! Marcpilot1