Harmonic balancer bolt tighten technique?

[GD51LA]

How are you guy tightening the almost 500nm balancer bolt (rb26)

on an engine stand…

 

i see these torque multiplier’s getting around, anyone used one?

[Duncan]

I have one but only use it to undo big stuff. You can't tell what torque it is putting on it, with 32x it would be easy to break or even worse over torque but not immediately break the bolt.

I just put the biggest bar on it I can and push down with my weight (I don't have a 400 whatever torque wrench).

Until now I have required a second voluntold to hold onto the longest breaker bar between a re-inserted bellhousing bolt and a flywheel tooth, next time I am trying this for that part:

[Dose Pipe Sutututu]

Could wait till it's in the car, gearbox mounted up and then pop it into a higher  gear, handbrake up and torque away.