Removing clutch/flywheel to split box/block
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what's the best way to do this, as i need to split my block/box :)
I dont have a flywheel pulling tool, but hopefully i'll win one on ebay and it'll be here sometime this week

haven't you just answered your own question?

You need a flywheel pulling tool!!!

once thats off its easy! just unbolt everything

Cool :) I didnt know if there was anything else i need to do :)

Can lend you a flywheel puller if you don't get one off ebay. Either pick it up or I can post it you.

Or in fact this thursday afternoon(ish) I am making a trip down the A1 past Peterboghorror so if you can meet me at the A1 then I can drop it off to you.

Cheers bud, this one ends on thursday, so dont worry about dropping it off, but if i dont win, i'll pay for postage! cheers!

I recall they were ?17 from my local halfords last time i looked - the cheapest I've seen them for years!!!

Halfords? (Sound of spitting on floor)

Robbing B&*^?$$

Although they do a good line in giving you out a new battery if you spot one the same as the one you bought from them in a skip and take it back with your receipt......suddenly ?70 doesn't seem so expensive........

lmao!!

this one on ebay is only a fiver atm!

i got mine from halfords for less than a tenner, they probably reduced it cos no one would pay ?17 for it

i ment to give you my flywheel puller alex but forgot!

Have you priced how much they sell for in the mini shops????

?17 sounded pretty good to me for a decent puller with a fine-pitch thread, much better than the units minispares sell :
http://www.minispares.com/Product.aspx?pid=36627

I've had two of the minispares ones; the first spun the head of the bolt (went and borrowed a mates draper puller and that got the flywheel off), the second the centre 'insert' got so badly mashed by the bolt that it used to spin on the end of the crank - not good.
The Halfords (draper) one at ?17 is good value in my opinion... I've seen the draper ones for sale at mini places for near ?25 before!

The finer pitch the thread on the puller the more axial load it'll apply for a given torque... I recall the thead pitch on the williams-club (minispares) puller is around twice that of the Draper.
Only thing to watch for on the draper ones is you use them the correct way round. Also, grease the thread every time you use it.

Edited by turbodave16v on 1st Feb, 2005.

mine is a sykes pickavaint one it worked well enough for me, they dont sell them in halfords anymore though i dont think

most times they come with two sets of bolts
3 off each
one set of fine thread unf for the pre vertro flywheel

one set coarse metric for the vertro flywheel be carefull you fit the right bolts to the fly wheel

just a thought alexB

Edited by BENROSS on 1st Feb, 2005.

Check the grade on the bolts aswell...

the imperial ones (the finer pitch ones) should have SIX little lines on the head - if they have three, they are only medium grade bolts, and these WILL give problems on a flywheel that is even slightly tough in removal...

The metric bolts should ideally have 12.9 (high grade) staped into the head, but 8.8 is probably ok.

I've just realised - I meant SykesPick, not Draper in my above posts...

Edited by turbodave16v on 1st Feb, 2005.

what do you reckon to this? or should i just go to halfords?

http://cgi.ebay.co.uk/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?Vie...item=4522232833

I'll drop you my Sykes one of on Thursday, save yourself the ?15 and spend it on something more fun.......bananas are good I hear.

It looks like a pretty good one actually... But bananas taste a lot nicer

you're a star then mate.. :) I'll get one eventually, but im not exactly flush at the moment, having just bought a mini, an engine, a turbo etc etc etc!

where do you want to meet, and at what time?
pm me if you're sure!

engine was free mate

gearbox cost though!

i have 2 pullers ill bring one to the next show

I totally agree with Dave on this. I've got two of these as well, and the S&P one is so very much nicer to use than the coarse thraded Minispares bastard. With the MSC I've needed to heat the flywheel up every time, not so with the S&P.

Yeah, sorry, i meant gearbox, not engine hehe.

Cheers wolfie - by the way, it looks like i stole your gloves! i'll chuck em in the post when i get a chance.

dont worry i stole them from work

lmao!