homemade flywheel holder?

[gawdzilla]

whats a good way to hold the flywheel so it doesn't rotate when trying to pull flywheel bolts, or remove the crank bolt? Anyone know where to get that "specialty tool" they mention in the FSM, or rig something up that works well?

I know impacting the FW bolts off will work, but i'm not too sure if impacting w/o pinning the FW for the crank bolt is safe...

[JonPowell]

How I usually do it...its kinda ghetto....

Put a breaker bar on the crank bolt and a long cheater bar to the ground, then the crankshaft wont spin...

If working on the crank bolt...put the breaker/cheater on the flywheel side.

[gawdzilla]

good idea.. will try it thanks

[xjon]

I take the starter off. Then I put a c clamp through the starter hole and clamp on the fw itself. I also used an impact wrench on some bolts and some were too tight so I used a breaker bar. That was on my KA.

[Project240]

Yeah I did the breaker bar/crank bolt thing, works fine.