QUESTION: How to remove Y Block flywheel

19Fordy

19Fordy

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How do you remove the flywheel from a Ford 292 engine still in the car that may have RED Loctite on the flywheel bolts? How do I prevent the flywheel from turning so I can loosen the bolts? Is there a special tool or simple way to hold the flywheel in place? Thank you.
 
If you don't have access to a compressor and impact wrench then use a socket and breakover bar, and instead of pulling on the bar to loosen the bolts hit the end of the bar with a heavy hammer.
 
I just take a long fillips screw driver or a long punch and stick it into one of the six clutch bolt holes and turn the flywheel until the screwdriver hangs up on something.
 
Jay in Mass said:
I just take a long fillips screw driver or a long punch and stick it into one of the six clutch bolt holes and turn the flywheel until the screwdriver hangs up on something.
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Then find the person that put the Loctite on the bolts and shoot him.

Sal
 
The red is nasty stuff... I used blue when I did a recent flywheel installation.

Try installing a bolt in one of the bellhousing holes. Then get someone using a huge screwdriver to hold the flywheel still, braced against the bolt into a tooth on the flywheel.
 
What I have always done, is to just stick a tire iron in one of the spokes of the crankshaft damper and then go back and start trying to loosen one of the flywheel bolts. The whole thing will rotate a little bit until that tire iron hangs up on something up front, like probably the front engine steady rest housing. Then you can use a breaker bar with your socket to loosen all the flywheel bolts.
 
I don't think locktite is a good application for flywheel bolts. They are supposed to be torqued down 75-85 lbs. They aint gonna come loose.
 
Stolen from the net.

"Here it is from the horses mouth. The Loctite corp..

Q: How can I remove a fastener that is "permanently" locked in?

A: The application of heat is needed to remove a fastener that can't be removed with a hand tool. Temperatures of 325F and above is needed to break down a standard anaerobic, 500F for high temperature Anaerobics. A heat gun or propane torch is commonly used to do this process, and careful disassembly should occur while parts are still hot. Once apart, and cooled, use methylene chloride (Chisel #79040) to remove cured excess material. Always wipe down the fasteners with clean up solvent to remove the wax film that Chisel leaves on the surface."
 
and remember, on a lot of Ford flywheels, the bolts holes align in only one position. I mark with a dab of paint to realign fast.
 
I've always used a short piece of chain anchored to one of the pressure plate bolt holes and a bellhousing bolt on the block.
 
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