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Alloy Race Backplate and Alloy Race Flywheel.
Engine Dissembling, Part 7 — Pulling flywheel.
For someone who works on cars for the first time, I’m constantly surprised by how difficult a small step can be. For instance, pulling flywheel. Here’s what I have learned, in case you are trying to do the same and come across this page via google. If you are purchasing flywheel puller from one of […]
5/8″ x 16 TPI, WTF?
Another half evening perfectly wasted on hunting down an odd ball bolt used by the mini. Someone mentioned that one shouldn’t directly apply flywheel puller on the end of crankshaft. So I decided to get a 5/8″ bolt to crew into the crankshaft. How difficult can that be? After an hour of driving around after […]
Engine Dissembling, part 3 — Two hours, one bolt.
It took one impact driver, one breaker bar, one hammer, two hours and lot of sweat to remove the flywheel center bolt.
The mysterious c-clip in flywheel removal instructions
Being someone a little bookworm-ish, I have collected quite a feel repair manuals. As I look through them for instructions on flywheel removal, all of them mentioned putting crankshaft at a particular position, yet each book seems have its own way of verify that. Here’re all the different indications I have come across: Put piston […]
Mini From Down Under 