Date: Sun, 26 Dec 2004 19:15:23 -0500
Reply-To: ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
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From: ROBERT DONALDS <donalds1@VERIZON.NET>
Subject: Re: V-Belt Pully Bolt
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If its a standard trany then you can use a bug type flywheel lock. with an
automatic a junk pushrod threw the converter bolt opening in the torque
plate and then threw the opening for the converter bolt access hole in the
case this stops the crank from turning but you can't use this push rod
method undo the front bolt except with a 1/2 drive air gun
Be careful that you don't spin the pistons into the seal surface of the
cylinders thus the flywheel lock or junk push rod
then leave the bolt screwed in most of the way and tap the bolt with a
hammer while you apply pressure on both sides of the pulley with two large
screw drivers You do know you cant reuse the con rods without replacing the
bolts and resizing the big end of the rod
Bob Donalds
Boston engine
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----- Original Message -----
From: "jbange" <hfinn@INGRATES.NET>
To: <vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM>
Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 6:34 PM
Subject: Re: V-Belt Pully Bolt
> At 02:18 PM 12/26/2004, you wrote:
>>Specifically, I don't have the means of anchoring the engine while I apply
>>the required torque. So I was thinking about splitting the case and
>>just removing the crank with the pulley still attached, and after it's
>>out, take it over to a local machine shop and have them remove it. Is
>>that a reasonable approach? Also, I have to ask this silly
>>question ........ is the bolt a standard left-hand thread to remove? Any
>>other suggestions?
>
> I remember back when I was ten or eleven years old watching my father do
> the clutch on his beetle and he had a five or six foot length of angle
> iron (it may even have been scavenged from a cheap metal bed frame) that
> he'd drilled a couple holes in and bolted to the engine to keep it from
> rolling over when cranking stuff on and off. I don't recall exactly where
> he attached it, but I reckon one might be able to affix such a thing to
> the
> transmission mounting points on a wasserboxer. Dunno if this is even a
> workable approach here, but I figured I might as well throw the notion out
> there...
>
> John Bange
> '90 Vanagon "Geldsauger"
>
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