Andre Hedrick

I gave Van the last of my Kroil, and helped him take apart his cocked up pressure plate. We talked about his new 700 inch/pound wrench and laughed our ***** off.

The next puzzle I see is the 87S4 flywheel/pressure plate, and 80 clutch fork ground down to allow the 87S4 throw out bearing to fit.

Given all cars now have 19mm ball for the fork, would an 87 fork work correctly?

heinrich

Like Charles says, a long breaker bar has always done it for me.

928mac

3/8 snap-on breaker bar to remove.


3/8 torque wrench to put it back



Torque is in the arm

993turbo

Ive always used a 2ft Snap-on breakerbar. No isses at all. :-)

Mrmerlin

NOTE this picture is showing an auto flywheel along with the longer driveshaft this is about the only way to get the tool from going sideways .
The OP has a clutch so their driveshaft wont have this flange or longer driveshaft

Bill Ball

Yup. I used the TT flexplate clamp on my automatic in this way to back the breaker so the bit could not back out of the flywheel bolt. Not available on the 5-speed.

vanster

Thanks to everyone, the bolts almost fell out. Thanks to Kroil and a good fitting
tool. I was very iffy using the Kragen, 4 for $6 tool, found a Mac tool that I could borrow. The fit is altogether different. I used my Snap On torque wrench and out they came/ Now to have it turned. Lesson learned.

Podguy

As far as the damper bolt and the rear wheel hub nuts I use a three foot breaker bar. The come right off. The bolts on the flywheel I have never had a problem with but I have a special socket wrench from Snap On.

Just curious can the flywheel bolts be reused? There seems to be some confusion on this.

jeff spahn

I reused mine. Didn't see in manual a no on re use.

Mrmerlin

you can reuse the flywheel bolts

jheis

For future reference, I don't think it's a good idea to use a torque wrench as a breaker bar. Certainly not if you want to use it as a torque wrench again.

James

steve322s

I agree with you hear james. i remember being a youngster and taking my fathers snap on wrench to remove some bolts.

where are you going with that!! thats not a breaker bar, dont use that! well ive never used one to remove a bolt and never will.

vanster

I agree with not using my torque wrench but the consequence of stripping a bolt
kept me up at night. I was willing to sacrifice my first born. I will never do it again
I promise.

Andre Hedrick

Just save it for later abuse :-)