hey everyone, I dont have an impact wrench, and i need to remove the lockbolt so that i can put on my new front cover. This is the last thing i need to do to my car for the swap to be complete. How do you guys remove the bolt with out an impact wrench? I mean if i HAVE to i will go n buy like an electric impact gun, but i would rather not.

Thanks guys

 

Engine in or out of the car?

 

If the flywheel is on, jam a pipe such as a floor jack pipe between the flywheel and rear housing. Turn the motor until it stops. The pipe will wedge between the flywheel and one of the bolts. You don't need an impact.

 

Yeah, my friend just told me to do it that way, so im gonna give it a shot tomorrow when i wake up. Thanks guys

 

you mean the front bolt? if its in the car, you use the starter to torque it out. if its outta the car, do like they said above, jam the flywheel and use a breaker bar.

pat

 

yeah, the motors in the car, but i dont have the starter hooked up, but i can still do the flywheel thing while its in the car right?

 

Yea you can. The flywheel has a slot so when you jam a pipe in there it will lock.
All you need is an extension bar onto a 1/2" driver and it will come off. It's not torqued THAT high. I've never had one that was too difficult that I had to use other means. By the way, make sure you have someone push in the clutch or find a way to have the clutch depressed so everything is meshed together up front. If not careful , the needle bearing / thrust washer could drop off it's location without the clutch depressed. Other than that, it's all straight forward. You should also do the thermal pellet mod or get a solid pellet since you are there.

 

thanks for the help, and yeah, i was thinkin that i should do that pellet mod while it was out

 

Three Feet Total of Breaker Bar/Cheater Bar, No Luck


1.5ft Breaker Bar With A 5ft Steel Pipe Over it... 3 People Holding The Engine Down, 1 Person Putting All Their Weight On It=Broken Breaker Bar and Still A Stuck Nut
Comparison of 1.5ft Breaker Bar and 5ft Pipe/Cheater Bar


Broken Breaker Bar





Sometimes you do

 

Wait, you were talking about the bolt on front inside the main pulley weren't you? Oops.. Well I still needed an impact wrench for that one too

 

LOL... yup the e- shaft bolt not the flywheel bolt.
Sometimes you have to use brute force on those flywheel nut and if that fails, torch that **** to loosen the thread locking adhesive. Then it comes right off.

 

sometimes it is nice being a mechanic, took me 3 seconds to take both off.

 

Notice I did torch it, from the first pic, still didnt work at ALL.

 

What kind of torch did you use? I had a propane one and it didn't do jack.

I heard an oxecytylene torch will have no problems getting it off.

 

Don't remember, just one I found in my friend's dad's garage.