AzEKnightz

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First of all, I apologize for my stupidness.

Somehow when I was disassembling the engine, I managed to skipped the "removal of e-shaft nut" and went straight to removing the Flywheel nut.

Got the flywheel nut off, and got rear housing + intermediate housing off. Now
trying to remove front rotor housing, per instruction, push from bottom of e-shaft and lift to remove housing! Uh-oh, haven't remove the e-shaft nut yet.

So with my impact gun (snap-on)1/2" aint budging.

Second option, heated the nut up with MAP and Oxygen gas and got that damn nut literally coated white (really hot) and used the impact, aint budging...

Now what are my choices? I am thinking it might be my air hose restricting pressurized air to my gun, because at work (BMW) the gun seems MUCH stronger, I had no problem taking any big nut or 500-1000ft/lb torque nuts off.

So any advices would be great. I came this far to rebuild my first engine and this is going nuts >.<

Thanks in advance.

-AzEKnightz

NeoTuri

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I forgot to do this too and ended up having to put the flywheel back on.

AzEKnightz

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I was thinking after I swap to a 3/8" hose and still doesnt work, I'll put the engine back together and then buy the special tool and zap it out.

This is ridiculous how tight it is!

-AzEKnightz

redrocket1

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LoL i did the same exact thing, As i can recall i had to use a 3/4 in drive impact (made for semi trucks ect) to get the same thing off. This is the only way possible man. And stepdowns were hard to come by. Good luck. You gotta use the biggest impact you can find.

GoodfellaFD3S

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I'd load it into your pickup/wagon/minivan and bring it to a garage that has a monster impact gun.

Battle Cat

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that just happend to my friend today...

i made him bolt the fly wheel back on and get an impact gun to remove the front nut off.

AzEKnightz

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Thank you guys for the response. I plan on reassembling the engine, bolt on the flywheel and use a 5 ft breaker bar =) and heat up the nut.

-AzEKnightz

Battle Cat

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gl with everything

GoodfellaFD3S

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Make sure you have a way to hold the engine (very firmly) down, otherwise the breaker bar method won't work.

Sgtblue

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FWIW, we fabbed this up in about 5 minutes from a steel fence post and two floor jack handles. Used it to break the front bolts loose on two different motors. One motor was original, IIRC the other was a reman. It looks pretty crude (and is) but it was effective and heating up the bolt wasn't necessary.....

badddrx7

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You don't have to put anything back together ! You make a simple tool from a scrap ( or use your own and buy another ) bottom pulley. Weld a long 3/4" or 1" pipe to it. Then bolt the tool back onto the e-shaft with the 4 bolts. Have and assistant hold the tool and you use a long socket and breaker bar to break it loose.

If you were here with the engine in the back of a pickup, I'd slip my shoes on, go the garage, bolte the tool on, remove that nut and send you on your way.

Here is the tool I made for this job long, long ago and it has NEVER failed. Hell my wife could take it off.

later