I took a 450 ft lb hammering torque gun to the bolt and it just laughed at me. I thought about it and figured leverage is way much better then a torque gun. I used my big rachet and a wrench to extend my leverage and it popped off in like 2 seconds. Take that biatch!

 

lol Reminds me of trying to get that damn counter balance off.... seeing that thing fly through the air is some pretty scary ****

 

Lol, I just went through this too...made a 6' 1x4 with holes for 2 of the flywheel/pressure plate bolts & dowel locations (keeps the engine from rolling around on the ground), plus the handy-dandy flywheel locking tool from Mazdatrix, and STILL had to hop on the 2 1/2 foot breaker bar....95 ft/lbs with locktite & 1" worth of thread contact surface equals about 500 ft/lbs!!!

 

Atleast you dint have your jack fail, have the car come flying down, and launch a 17mm end wrench 6 inches from your head into the wall.

Thank god I wasent under there.....

 

i had the same experience with the lug nuts.....took nearly an hour to get just the 4 wheels off....after the wheels were off..i didnt feel like working on the car anymore....

 

get a 1/2" drive breaker bar & a deep well socket (mine's 22mm), lug nut problems will be a thing of the past...

 

 

did that....got a 2.5ft breaker bar with the car lifted on the lift...i hung at the end of it, looking like an ape, with 150 lbs it didnt budge at all..then my 350lb friend got the job done

 

PB Blaster is your friend

 

If theengine is still on the car, a breaker bar against the chassis or floor + cranking the engine (remove spark plugs cable) = Teh best\no sweat

 

Anybody wanna rent me the tool to lock the flywheel? I'm gettin ready to take the plunge.

 

It's only $22 at Mazdatrix- then you'll have one for all the future engine pulls/ teardowns too

 

I'll sell you the mazda trix flywheel stop bar. I bought it and realised how much easier it turned out to be (for me) to use a crowbar pinched between the flywheel and cement.

make an offer, but its gotta be over shipping which will be like $10 prolly

EDIT:

Its above the driveshaft. I think it got covered in floordry and thats what the whitestuff is-- should wipe right off and the paint should still look relatively new. (bought last fall, never used it-- just too it out of the packaging)

 

mine wasnt that hard to take off...oddly..

 

come to think of it, I think we used our hands to hold the flywheel while we air-gunned the nut off... I'll have to ask ed when he gets back to see if he remembers

 

insane people we have here.....i heard the flywheel nut was a PITA..but guess for most people it turnes out pretty easy

 

had the same problem, used a torch to heat it up a bit then it came right out

 

If you use a metal bar or something to wedge into the flywheel, isn't there a risk of doing damage to the teeth on the flywheel?

 

heat that nut up with a little fire and it will pop right off with an impact wrench.

 

Hmmm...how about a torque wrench, the tube off a floor jack for leverage and someone in the car with the brake on