36 replies to this topic

[mk1leg]

have you put the crank at TDC before locking the flywheel......as the cwasher will slip and you will never get it off...............

[Hendred]

What is TDC?  Do you mean the slots horizontal where/behind the centre flywheel bolt was?

[Cooperman]

TDC is 'top dead centre' and relates to the position of the pistons and thus the crankshaft.

To remove the flywheel pistons 1 & 4 need to be at TDC before the flywheel is pulled.

The reason for this is that there is a C-shaped washer which locates the primary gear and it can drop down behind the flywheel as it pulls off unless the crank/pistons 1 & 4 are at TDC when the flywheel comes off. If it does drop down, the flywheel will need to be cut off with a large angle grinder and the crank can also be ruined.

This is very important!

[Hendred]

Ok thanks

[Hendred]

In all the literature including Haynes it says to keep the slots horizontal behind where the centre bolt came from due to the C shape washer coming off, is keeping the slots lined up horizontally enough or is there another way of ensuring 1 & 4 pistons are at TDC?

 

Thanks

[The Matt]

Yep, slots horizontal is OK.

[Hendred]

Tightened the puller again this morning, tightended up quite abit more today, hopefully come off within the month.  Just a thread on pistonheads where a bloke had a flywheel that took a month to come off tightening the puller everyday.

[The Matt]

THIS is what you really need.

 

I've got one here you're welcome to borrow, but I'm about an hour from you (over Ellesmere way).

[Hendred]

That's very kind of you but as you say an hour away.  If I am in the same situation in a month I may well be on your doorstep!

[Hendred]

Don't suppose there is any way of checking if the C shaped washer has come off behind Flywheel?, starting to get a bit paranoid it may have come off, of course it probably hasn't as kept 1&4 flywheel pistons at top dead centre and slots horizontal as Haynes manual states.

[The Matt]

no way of checking really, but if the flywheel is in the correct position it can't drop out.

[Gazp]

As already said time is the only answer did mine a couple months back took 3 weeks of tightening and one day my stepdad was in the shed and brushed passed it and it fell off!

[GraemeC]

The fywheel would have to release off the taper before the C washer would become a real problem.

[A-Cell]

As already said time is the only answer did mine a couple months back took 3 weeks of tightening and one day my stepdad was in the shed and brushed passed it and it fell off!

Does your step dad fancy a trip to Cleobury for a walk- by .

To the OP it will come off.

[Hendred]

Thats put my mind at rest, thanks.