Tools. Removing Flywheel and pulleys.

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Tools. Removing Flywheel and pulleys.

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Whats best practice and tools to use when removing flywheels and crank pulleys. Obviously when you try to undo bolts the engine turns over so something has to counter act it. I have an engine in the shed so saying "use your brakes" or something wont work :p

I asked 3 shops for a flywheel locking tool
BMS wanted 23.99 and they would have to order it. Im not paying that much, for a tiny bit of metal.
Carcraft didnt have a clue
Halfords didnt have a clue

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I do have one of these for holding cam pulleys;
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to undo the flywheel bolts i put a socket on the pully end of the crankshaft and a long bar so it pressed on the floor.

undoing the pully bolt is neigh on impossible, i had to give it to a machine shop to get mine off (its also probably a left handed bolt).

Ry
 
to undo the flywheel bolts i put a socket on the pully end of the crankshaft and a long bar so it pressed on the floor.

undoing the pully bolt is neigh on impossible, i had to give it to a machine shop to get mine off (its also probably a left handed bolt).

Ry
Yeah haynes says its left handed, fiat service says nothing :p but it has to be torqued upto 360nm, so thats some whack. If I can get the oil pump off without the need to remove it thats fine otherwise i may need to remove the crank sprocket.

Wonder if these fly wheel locking tools can handle 360nm of force and the bolt hole its on doesnt snap off ?? This is what im worried about aswell
 
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Reading haynes again and it says lock the flywheel so i was thinking two of these. Each bolted throught the lower gearbox mounts.

Im worried about braking the gearbox mounts, the crank sprocket bolt is tightend to 360nm. Should I be worried? I think two may help the load.

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At leats I have a damaged 1.4 in the garden I can practice on that first.
 
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Well I got the crank sprocket off the spare broken block.

I used two flywheel locking tools in the lower gearbox mounts.

My mate stood on the block. Without him i was just rolling it round on the floor. Used my 24" new longbar



:D feels like ive turned a big corner today
 
how much did the flywheel locking tools cost?
Well they are franklin and BMS a local motorfactor wanted £23.99 for one! so no way i was paying that, plus they had to order it in. I found the same ones on ebay for £8.40 each. so got two. They are heavy for there size like all strong metals

You dont get bolts with them. Those i used where some my dad had from his old engineering job.
 
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