need a flywheel lock tool
 

Is there some place that sells these?

Has anyone been able to lock the flywheel without needing this tool?

FYI... I saw the pictures in Wayne's book, which is just a flat metal bar with holes cut in it... but if I don't have any metal laying around, or know anyone who has anything close.


I tried just shoving a long screwdriver in one of the flywheel holes, but it doesn't seem to hold all that well.


I'm just trying to take the nut off my pulley... and the impact wrench doesn't even make it budge.

Bolt 'n large Screwdriver. Works like a charme.

I figured that would work, but apparently its a puzzle to me.

got a pic or can explain where bolt and screwdriver go???

Double box end wrench linking a pressure plate bolt and trans mount bolt works for me.

Re-use one of those large cup shaped washers that were used to hold the front koni shock top.
Trace the profile of the flywheel teeth and file (grinder/dremel) from one edge of that washer.
Bolt it up to a transmission or starter mount bolt hole (right diameter and hole size).

Just dug out the 911 shaped one to cut the other side for a E30 BMW... it's now "two tools in one".

I drilled 2 holes in a length of sheet metal I had laying around. Doubled it up to make sure it was strong enough.

These are what I use.......
 

Trakrat,

Use your imagination and make your own tools. Sometimes you are over thinking something very simple and I tend to fall in that situation too. People have given you good advices and these are what I use.......

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511191151.jpg

Or a scrap metal like this does the job. Nothing fancy and very useful.
http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511191151.jpg

Go to your local hardware store and buy a piece of flatbar 6” to 8” long and drill two holes at the ends. Or find some scrap metals and fabricate something out of it. Do you happen to watch McGyver? Keep us posted.

Tony

Ha!! I was going to mention... "need some suggestions to McGyver a flywheel locking tool". :D

I have always used a combinational wrench. No need for any fancy tool.

Correct, doesn't even need to be a box end wrench, if you put in into compression then a wrench with 2 open ends is fine. In fact, I would think that a wrench in compression (where the entire mass of the wrench is being used) would be stronger than a wrench in tension (where it's trying to tear the box end open).

VWVortex.com - torque settings for the pressure plate and flywheel.

Random website showing an example

perfect.... that's the image I had in my head, but just wasn't sure 'HOW' it would actually work.

Just screw an 8mm bolt trough one of the holes in the FW where the clutch mounts.

this type?
 

This is all I did. Worked perfectly and cost nothing but a few inches of some flat stock that I had already.

http://forums.pelicanparts.com/uploa...1511236792.jpg

I did basically what Jeff NJ did, worked fine.

Impact wrench works great too... You can never have too many tools... ;)

I must have bought the Harbor Freight clearance model... as mine just bangs away on the nut and overheats the motor. I held it on for a good minute until I gave up when I could smell that burning smell from the motor.
:(

I remember being a novice mechanic, watching the real mechanics struggling to tighten a flywheel (using a flywheel lock), with one guy on the bar and the other trying to hold the engine stationary.

"Why not bolt a long angle iron (with two holes drilled in it) to two of the clutch holes? That would arrest all rotation forces at the flywheel." Hmm ..

Impact wrench does not help when you are installing the flywheel and have to torque it to specs