On Thu, 8 Jul 2010 18:24:09 -0700, James H. wrote:
There is NO WAY you're gonna leverage the flywheel up. I tried, and I ended
up breaking a gas:air tube from the air filter. I'm not sure now if it's
worth repairing as multiple parts of plastic and aluminum are now broken.

For the record, the ONLY way to get that flywheel off is with a harmonic
balancer puller (an 8-inch gear puller failed to take it off). I still
don't have it off because I didn't have the right sized bolts for my
harmonic balancer puller ...

I just found out the reasons my bolts didn't fit was the fact that you need
special self-tapping bolts!

According to this web site, I need self-tapping bolts. But who has these
and what size?


___ ___
|___| |___|-------- Self tapping bolts or pretap holes.
| | | |
_|-|_ _|-|_
| |-| | | |-| |------- Tighten nuts to release flywheel.
___|_|-|_|__________|_|-|_|___
| |-| |-| |--- Plate or block - 1/4" or thicker steel
|_____|-|______________|-|_____|
|-| .-.----.-. |-|
|-| | :----: |-|-|---------- Flywheel nut - loosen slightly.
|-| |_:----:_| |-|
______|-|___ :----: ___|-|______
//////:-:///|:----:|///:-://////
//////:-:///|:----:|///:-:////// -- Flywheel comes with predrilled
holes.
//////'-'///|:----:|///'-'////// (taper not shown - ASCII
limitations!)
//////| |///|:----:|///| |//////