OK on the Fly wheel Nut which way do you turn the ratchet to loosen the nut?

 

Normal thinking says to the left man....and use a impact gun to ease teh suffering of your arms

 

Its your standard right hand thread. Left to loosen. Whatsa matter, cant get it off? But its not gonna happen with a ratchet. You will need an impact or a very long breaker bar.

 

thanx guys. Just wanted to check didn't want to start to do it and some how miss it up

 

and whatever you do...DONT PUT A WRENCH TO THE NUT ON TEH LOWER FRONT PULLEY BOLT!!!!!!! that will sooo very much cause somethign evil wrong...my 88se is sitting at kevins now because I had made that mistake....

 

Real men remove this nut with their teeth.

 

But its a shame when real men are never around to show off those pearly whites for such an adventure

 

What happened is, you probably broke the front bolt loose and dropped the Torrington bearing.

This nut is a ***** to remove, hopefully you have a good flywheel stopping tool!

 

haha the flywheel bolt is torqued to 275-300 ft lbs factory spec, good luck with a ratchet!

 

No...i got the worst end of the deal....the key slipped out by a quarter inch...allowing the counterweight to slide....everythign else stayed put though, literally. and since I was not on that end of the motor i had no idea the key moved, so it all got tightend back down, the counterweight not in right and teh key damaging teh copper washign, thereby forcing a oil leak as well as causing my vibration woes. My car has since been to see mr. landers as of this weekend. Hopefully i hadnt screwed anythign else up. though she ran great.

 

When I've removed teh flywheel nut I usually take a crowbar and the stick it behind the flywheel and turn the flywheel counter-clockwise until the little protrusions on the back of the flywheel catch the crowbar and keep turning until the whole thing locks up against the rear iron's protrusions (kinda sounds goofy to explain, but if you stick a crowbar back there and turn the flywheel you'll see where it will catch safely.)

Then I use a 3/4" drive breaker bar with the 2 1/2" socket with a big four foot chunk of pipe and give it a good pull. I've done this twice now and both times the nut just popped off without having to pull as hard as I can.

 

^ Yes. My friends and I removed flywheels nuts like this. 2 of us had to brace the engine in place, and the other had to break the nut free with a giant wratchet + socket + GIANT cheater bar. My friend fell on the ground each time, but the nuts broke free

 

I just took the easy route.

I put the engine in the back of my Subaru, drive to a local truck shop I know (with 1" impact wrenches & huge sockets to match), and ask them to remove the flywheel nut & front pulley nut. Then, I take one of the crowbars, pry on one side of the flywheel, tap the other side with a sledge laying around, pop the flywheel off, and drive home 10 minutes later with all the difficult stuff done. Usually for free.

-=Russ=-

 

yes and you need a giant to do that too

 

I went the harrdware store method for my stopper bar... same thing mazdatrix sells.

jsut go buy a couple feet of rectangular stock, like and inch wide and a quarter inch thick. measure the distance between two of the bolts on the flywheel, and drill and tap these holes, you can then botls the bar straight on to the flywheel, and rotate it until it hits the ground.

 

Nothing like renting a 1 inch electric impact gun, for $20 a day, it makes life way much easier. Do a search under my ID, you will even find the model number, seriously no effort at all, lets just say that I don't even sweat it when it comes to that part of the job

I liked it so much, that I ended up buying one

 

Hell they even have cordless impact guns now. Dont know if they will work in the same application.