As I was pulling out of the garage this morning, I found a present left for me under the car. A flywheel bolt. I have recently done the clutch and resurfaced the flywheel. I got all new flywheel bolts and thought I put enough red loctite on there, but my real question is are there any ways for the bolts to get out from between the flywheel, the clutch disc and pressure plate? I feel like something would have scraped first and made awful noises.

My second thought to where this bolt came from was possibly an extra old bolt had been placed somewhere in the engine bay/ ontop of the exhaust somehow and finally has come to rest off the car. Anyway, if you have had experience with these bolts coming off please enlighten me.

 

Basically i'm asking if it is even possible for a bolt (if it came loose and dethreaded itself) to actually fall out of that volume between the flywheel/clutch/pressure plate.

 

Does it look new?

 

Does it look broken?

 

somehow I think it's probably one of the old ones. I had them all over the place when I did mine.

 

Looks older. I assumed it didn't come from the flywheel and drove into work today and my flywheel exploded.... Just kidding. Probably came from the engine bay.

 

I think you're fine. I agree, I don't think it could come out.

 

i dont think it came out either,at the very least you would have heard it. on the humor side are you an aircraft mechanic? eeeekkkk

 

I think it would be too big to come out. Just sloppy cleanup.

Why did you use red loctite? You're going to have a killer time getting them out when it comes time. That's what torque specs are for.

 

Not sure. Maybe it was blue. No aircraft mechanic but I am almost a pilot. One more month.

 

Air tools will take care of that!

 

Was thinking about saying that

 

Who have you P.O. lately? Maybe they threw a bolt into your garage just to mess with your mind.

Cheers,
Larry

 

"Air tools will take care of that!"

actually, air tools may well shear the bolts off if you used Red.... heat will take care of it, but you shouldn't use locktite on these bolts.

 

Seems highly improbable that the bolt could work its way out.