Flywheel removal ?
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Now, to get the flywheel slid loose from the shaft.......Gotta track down a pulley puller tomorrow, or figure out if I have a heavy enough piece of steel in the basement to make one.
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Next, I heated the flywheel to about 200 degrees with my paint stripper gun, whapped it a couple more times, still nothing.
THEN, I put my homemade pulley puller on it, torqued the bolts as hard as I dared - still nothing - even when I whapped it a few more times with the puller on it.
Gotta make a milk and bread run now, so a stop by the auto places is in order for a HD puller. That flywheel is coming off - TODAY!!!!
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No distributor? No thanks
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You might be well off just to get a heavy sledgehammer. I don't have one and have always wanted an excuse to buy one. For fear of damaging the flywheel, I'd place a block of wood over one of the flats for the clutch bolts and wail away. Just keep stepping it up a notch.
Just remember that at this point, the flywheel is embarassing you, and you just can't let that stand.
Just remember that at this point, the flywheel is embarassing you, and you just can't let that stand.
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Finally - the car gods started to smile on me, but I had to fight them for it.
I got the flywheel off (after torquing the hell out of it with a 3/4" thick HD puller, and beating on it after every 1/4 turn on the center puller bolt with my 5lb sledgehammer), then I took it to the local machine shop.
HOWEVER - they did not have an adapter that would fit my flywheel, so I went by work, scrounged thru the metal gears, and found one that they could use as a spacer. Took the gear to them, they machined the flywheel, and it is setting on my workbench, ready to be cleaned up and reinstalled (after I eat supper).
AND - I picked up a couple M10 by 1.25 by 90mm bolts at Ace Hardware (3 friggin bucks each), that I'm hack sawing off the heads (and cutting a screwdriver slot in it for removal ease), and will use them as guide pins to reinstall the transmission , per another post's suggestion.
I should have her back together and fired up later tonight. I've took cell pics along the way, I doubt it's anything that hasn't been seen before so I'm not going to clutter up the site.
If I guessed wrong, let me know and I'll put them in this post.
Hopefully - the next post will tell how good the new clutch and rebuilt shifter feels.
I got the flywheel off (after torquing the hell out of it with a 3/4" thick HD puller, and beating on it after every 1/4 turn on the center puller bolt with my 5lb sledgehammer), then I took it to the local machine shop.
HOWEVER - they did not have an adapter that would fit my flywheel, so I went by work, scrounged thru the metal gears, and found one that they could use as a spacer. Took the gear to them, they machined the flywheel, and it is setting on my workbench, ready to be cleaned up and reinstalled (after I eat supper).
AND - I picked up a couple M10 by 1.25 by 90mm bolts at Ace Hardware (3 friggin bucks each), that I'm hack sawing off the heads (and cutting a screwdriver slot in it for removal ease), and will use them as guide pins to reinstall the transmission , per another post's suggestion.
I should have her back together and fired up later tonight. I've took cell pics along the way, I doubt it's anything that hasn't been seen before so I'm not going to clutter up the site.
If I guessed wrong, let me know and I'll put them in this post.
Hopefully - the next post will tell how good the new clutch and rebuilt shifter feels.
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