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RE: Getting a flywheel off (TR6)

Subject: RE: Getting a flywheel off (TR6)
From: Gernot Vonhoegen <gernot.vonhoegen@stir.ac.uk>
Date: Mon, 24 May 1999 13:58:18 +0100
Cc: triumphs@autox.team.net
don't know, what bout the oldfashioned approach of jamming the flywheel
teeth with a crowbar or a screwdriver... not to speak about using an impact
driver.

> ----------
> From:         Skip Montanaro[SMTP:skip@mojam.com]
> Reply To:     Skip Montanaro
> Sent:         Monday, May 24, 1999 1:52 PM
> To:   Steve Nabors
> Cc:   triumphs@autox.team.net
> Subject:      Re: Getting a flywheel off (TR6)
> 
> 
> 
>     Steve> I'm in the midst of replacing my clutch and I need to replace a
>     Steve> leaking rear main engine seal. This morning I've been trying to
>     Steve> get the flywheel off but I'm having trouble getting the engine
> to
>     Steve> bind on something so it doesnt turn over. 
> 
> I don't know if they are universally applicable, but in another life
> fiddling with old Porsches, we used to use a U-shaped gizmo that had a
> hole
> in the bottom of the U.  The "legs" of the U engaged the teeth of the
> flywheel. A long bolt was run through a transmission mounting hole in the
> engine block, through the hole in the U and snugged down with a nut.
> 
> I made a bad drawing of such a bracket (I can't draw worth a damn) and
> placed it at
> 
>     http://www.musi-cal.com/~skip/bracket.gif
> 
> 

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