The bolt that holds on the flywheel....

[SuperMuncher]

I cant get it off!!!!! How???? It's driving me crazy!!!!! I tried holding the flywheel with locking pliers and then put a wrench on the bolt and tried to loosen it but it wont break loose. Any tips?

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*My Other Car's A Traxxas

[FORD_DragRacer141]

it works doing it that way for me



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...We HaVe IgNiTiOn...

[E rock]

one thing to say "try a little heat"

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jumpin cracks

[Subaru]

clamp the flywheel in a vice (nice and secure) then get a socket (deep) and a ratchet. If you are a young kid (7-13) the odds are you don't have enough muscel to break it loose or your going the wrong way, so get an adult to break it loose for you. If you have tried it with a socket and a SNAP ON ratchet you don't have the strenghth because it will have a lever and under the lever it says "on" "off" so you can't get it mixed up

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Nope, can't find anyone that cares

[SuperMuncher]

Alright I got it off, thanks.

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*My Other Car's A Traxxas

[dude535]

I am having trouble with this also...I dont have a deep enough socket to fit, and I dont have a vice. I tried with pliers already but the flywheel keeps slipping. What else should I try?

[SuperMuncher]

I used a plier thing that locks, the thing that has a screw coming out of the handle. I cant remember the name of it...Anyways I used that and a socketwrentch. Lukily I had a deep enough socket tho... I dont know what you should do. Sorry

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*My Other Car's A Traxxas

[commador]

mabey its called a vise grip??????

[SuperMuncher]

Ya thats it
Thanks

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*My Other Car's A Traxxas

[ducky]

if no socket use a box end wrench

[roadrunner]

get a membership at the local gym.... work on those muscles... .

[homeskipmeisterdoggy]

OK listen up, here's the trick of the day.
take out the glow plug.
turn the flywheel CCW (looking from the flywheel to the head)until the piston is almost to the top.
pour after run oil down the glow plug hole to fill up the space in the cylinder.
screw the glow plug back in.
the engine is now miraculously locked up!
unscrew the crank nut.
Holy Mackeral! that wuz easy!

a couple of disclaimers:
don't use silicon based oil in the motor (like shock oil or wd40).
unscrew the glow plug again and drain the oil out to free the motor back up.

[Gold Digger]

One other thing you can do is to flip the one way bearing over, and use a 10mm on the flyweel side, and a 12mm on the one way side. By flipping the one way bearing over you lock the crank in the direction that allows you to unscrew the flywheel bolt. This is easier on your flywheel.

[Nitro Boost]

I don't recommend doing what homeskipmeisterdoggy said because if that nut is on real tight, you could risk bending the connecting rod. I've seen it happend before with one of those piston locking tools.

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"Nitro" It does a body good!

[FLASH]

I didn't have a 10mm deep socket (well, actually, I did, but it wasn't thinwall, and wouldn't fit between the clutch shoe pins). I took my 4-way glow plug wrench, and rotated the 10mm socket end against a grinding wheel to shave the outside alittle, and presto! Now it works on the flywheel nut!