CrewCabCummins

I have the head off so I have NO compression or belts to hold it from spinning....so how do I keep it from turning while I'm trying to loosen the 4 bolts that hold it on?..help

JD730

When I had mine off I had to have my brother holt the flexplate with a prybar. Even with compression I needed him to hold it.

If you have a barring tool you could put it in and engage the teeth on the flywheel/flexplate and put a breaker bar in it and let it hit the frame while you loosen the bolts.

ares

its easy if you have a barring tool and someone to hold it... if not i put a hardwood block between the notch in the balancer and the crossmember.

Rauschbo

- try a strap-wrench around it - use the serp belt. Worked fine for me when doing the KDP....

JKM

air impact?

gman07

It'll be hard to get an impact down there unless you have the radiator out. I wedged a piece of metal bent at 90* between the notch in the balancer and something else, dont remember exactly what it was.

JKM

How much space is down in there? I have a 3/8 drive ingrsol rand impact gun thats roughly 4 1/4" long , and has some wicked torque, it has broken off 1/2 bolts on me , repeatedly , and it LOVES to crack my snap on impact sockets....

http://www6.sears.ca/webapp/wcs/stor...ctId=158060720


I also have a 1/2 mac impact http://www.mactools.com/ProductDetai...ItemNum=AW5500

and a set of snap on swivel impact sockets http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....da&dir=catalog

If none of that stuff can get a stubborn bolt out , the blue tipped wrench usually comes out of hiding...

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gman07

Well, i guess that might work. I was just thinking about our giant, generic, heap-of-**** impact.