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Re: Porsche flywheel nut

To: gibson@ccis.adisys.com.au, vintage-race@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: Porsche flywheel nut
From: JWoesvra@aol.com
Date: Tue, 14 Sep 1999 08:23:33 EDT
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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