screamin94Z

Throwing up a hail mary here...Any Rennlisters close to the Albany, NY area that would be willing to let me borrow their flywheel lock tool this weekend? Doing my timing belt and I want to do front engine seals while I'm at it so I need to remove the crank bolt.

I'll sweeten the pot with an opportunity to work on the car with me, I'm very good company

Thanks in advance!

Van

How did you make out?

screamin94Z

wasnt able to locate one so far. I might abandon removing the crank pulley for now and just replace the belts and rollers.

Van

I made my first flywheel lock out of a little piece of angle iron welded to a metal bar with 2 holes so the angle iron edges would fit between two flywheel teeth.

V2Rocket

If your car is an NA model (unsure if this works on Turbo or 16v)...
You can remove the black sheet metal cover from the bottom of the bell housing and look at the "front" of the flywheel. There are a few holes drilled in the flywheel, some of which line up just right with tabs on the oil pan. You can stick a long M8 bolt in that hole and let it jam against the oil pan and that will hold the crank secure enough to break the bolt loose.

When you go to tighten the crank bolt, move your "tool" to the other side...

screamin94Z

it would have been a bit easier with the flywheel lock, but the wedged bolt worked just fine! Thanks for the advice guys.

MM951

Shoot me a PM if you need other tools etc at some point. Im about 40 min south of Albany