HAR! No, Danny, I wasn't planning on using the adjustable to try to get the crank pulley off! I DID use it to turn the engine over so I could find TDC and adjust the valves and such.
I have a 30mm socket but it's too long to fit in front of the torsion bar. I have a 1 3/8 that fits over the nut but it's a little loose so I don't want to crank on it and maybe round the points.
I'll buy a new box wrench and a shorter 30mm half-inch socket before trying to get the crank pulley off, don't worry!
Update: the alt won't move and neither will the shroud. Alt pulley has three shims in the middle (and none anywhere else) and was as tight on the alt as it could get--so much so that the little nub that sticks up from the alt body inside the pully was scratching on it.
It's a thick pulley so I might conscript a buddy to machine a little meat off the inside of it to make it set down on the shaft some. If I can get an eighth there and shim the crank pulley out that much (maybe?) then I think it'll be good enough.
I'm not understanding why these buggers don't line up better though. I kinda doubt Raby would've shipped it that way and kinda wonder why Carey wouldn't've noticed or at least mentioned it. I'd much rather have dealt with it on the pallet.