Tips on Removing Your Car or Truck's Flywheel

If you have a fly wheel on your engine that is in need of being replaced, you will not have as difficult a time as you might think. However, it is impossible to remove without the proper equipment. You can not just take off the bolt and pull on it has hard as you can because that will not work.

To remove a fly wheel the first thing you need to do is remove the clutch plate. The clutch plate is attached to the fly wheel by bolts along its edge. Remove these bolts and put the clutch plate aside for now. Remember if you are changing your fly wheel you will probably want to replace you clutch plate along with it. this does not mean every time your clutch plate needs to be replaced that you have to replace the fly wheel as well, the clutch plate is built so that the where goes on it and not the fly wheel.

Now that you can see your fly wheel you will need to loosen the center bolt. The best way to do this is to put to of the bolts that were holding on the clutch plate and put them most of the way back in. now take a metal bar and brace it between the two bolts and the ground so that the engine will no longer turn over. Now that it is braced carefully take either a very large wrench or a very large socket and ratchet and put it on the fly wheel. Now that you have it you are going to need a very large pipe to put over the end of the wrench. You will need to go to the end of the pipe and putting as much force as you can. Make sure that you are going in the correct direction. A repair manual for your specific vehicle should help you with little details like that. If your engine just keeps tilting back and forth you might need a friend to hold down the block so that you can put more force on the large bolt.

Once you have the bolt loose, take a fly wheel puller and brace it against the bolt. The fly wheel should start coming while you tighten the fly wheel puller up. You may need to loosen the bolt and pull several times until the fly wheel comes off of its base then take the large bolt off and the fly wheel off with it.

To put the fly wheel back on reverse the process and use the force of turning the large bolt to push the fly wheel back into place. You will want to tighten it then to the number of foot pounds that the repair manual says to tighten it.