In a message dated 09/14/1999 7:12:43 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
gibson@ccis.adisys.com.au writes:
<< Porsche, but a friend raced a Mazda R100 Sport Sedan for
some years, remember that the flywheel nut went on in the same style,
high tensile socket with a long bar, least 10' >>
Ditto for Minis. The flywheel nut has to be so tight that it requires a
hydrolic puller to get it off. We use a 25 ton OTC cylinder. 10 tons won't do
it! Otherwise the crank tail will fret and you'll eventually have to cut a
flywheel off.
Curiously, this only happens on race engines.
Jack Woehrle
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