Date:         Tue, 21 May 2002 18:00:03 -0500
Reply-To:     Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Sender:       Vanagon Mailing List <vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com>
From:         Stan Wilder <wilden1@JUNO.COM>
Subject:      Re: Removal of flywheel bolts
Comments: To: dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET
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I've had some experiences with these flywheel bolts that nearly got me
whipped.
First on a TriSquare socket bolt in a flexplate on a 1983 engine and then
next on a flywheel on a 83 engine.
Here is what worked for me in both situations:
#1) Get the best fitting, highest quality 6 point socket you can, grind
the socket down so it has as much hex contact as possible with the
flywheel bolt head. (grind it down past that bevel that makes it find the
bolt easily)
#2) Take a three pound hammer and get a piece of 1" soft steel/brass flat
bar and lay it over the bolt head and give it a good whack with the
hammer.
#3) Lock the flywheel with a piece of flat bar drilled to accept the
flywheel bolt and the opposite end to go over the tranny mounting bolt.
#4) Take your breaker bar with the modified socket and apply strong even
pressure to remove the stubborn bolt. If its still locked hit the breaker
bar with the hammer so the shock goes into the flywheel as you pull down
on the bar. Use a cheater bar if you have to and be careful that you
don't break out the mounting stud holes on your tranny.

Stan Wilder
83 Air Cooled Westfalia

On Tue, 21 May 2002 18:38:04 -0400 Dennis Haynes <dhaynes@OPTONLINE.NET>
writes:
> A flywheel lock and the proper socket-breaker bar combination will
> take
> these bolts off easily. Avoid the torch thing  here.
>
> Dennis.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM] On
> Behalf
> Of Thomas D. Hanlon
> Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 8:16 AM
> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
> Subject: Removal of flywheel bolts
>
> Listees,
>
> I have two engines in repair/play in order to install a
> recently-rebuilt
> transmission from a donor GL Vanagon in my Westy.. In each of them,
> it
> has been impossible for me to remove the flywheel bolts.   I have
> the
> usual tools, including a Chicago Electric Tools impact wrench, and
> the
> item may be a "dud," for which I paid too little in comparison to
> the
> prices of  "real" impact wrenches I subsequently "window-shopped"
> at
> Sears.
>
> Would there be any benefit to using the"blue wrench," since the
> bolts
> are attached to the shaft, rather than to the flywheel which would
> be
> heated?
>
> Please offer opinions on methods to separate the flywheels from the
> engines wthout the use of the impact wrench, if I can avoid it.
>
> Tom Hanlon
> Palm Springs, CA
> 84 Westfalia
>

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