Pulling a motor...

[HotRodPC]

The mother fugger almost looks like some kind of exotic sex toy or some chit !!! I've never seen or used one. EVER !!! The **** people will sell. I'll assure you, the guy who invented that tool, did not become a millionaire. Not on that tool anyway. Unless he sold it at the sex shops.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

I made my own tool, a piece of small angle iron that bolts to the starter mount.

 

[85k10383]

The mysterious tool is actually a flywheel turning tool that allows you to turn the bastard to get at all three bolts to release the converter from the flywheel. And they come in very handy, this I know because I turned mine with an old flat blade screwdriver and it was a humongous PAIN IN MY ASS! Do yourself a favor and unhook the converter first rather than last unless you want the motor rocking back and forth as you muscle the flywheel around to get those three bolts out. Of course mine might have been trouble because the cam was broken into four pieces inside the block, but what the hell...

 

[Irishman999]

Im blown away no one has seen one of these fly wheel holders! My Dad has th exact same one made by Snap-on. The tool looks weird as hell but once you use the tool its very simple and alot easier than using a screw driver of whatever other method to hold the flywheel.

 

[85k10383]

Its just us young guys that know about all them new-fangled tools I-man! LOL

 

[Irishman999]

Its just us young guys that know about all them new-fangled tools I-man! LOL

I guess so man, I do know the Chuck Norris (Hot rod) of square body trucks holds the flywheel with his teeth while breaking those bolts loose

 

[85k10383]

No, HRPC would just tell the motor to get itself out of the truck before he got REALLLY upset! Retro is the one who holds stuff with his teeth LOL

 

[Irishman999]

No, HRPC would just tell the motor to get itself out of the truck before he got REALLLY upset! Retro is the one who holds stuff with his teeth LOL

 

[HotRodPC]

hahaha, NOT !!! I have always got a rag an turned the flywheel by hand, or strategially set the bolts where I wanted them and could grab another before I broke it loose. And if I was real lazy, I just put a remote starter button on the solenoid and bumped it around. Never had a need for one of something I never knew existed.

 

[Irishman999]

Hotrod, if you ever used one and saw how it works you will kick your own ass for not buying one when you started doing transmissions.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

hahaha, NOT !!! I have always got a rag an turned the flywheel by hand, or strategially set the bolts where I wanted them and could grab another before I broke it loose. And if I was real lazy, I just put a remote starter button on the solenoid and bumped it around. Never had a need for one of something I never knew existed.

Yep, these young whipper-snappers want to do everything at once! Us old timers know how to do it without these new fangled gadgets.

 

[HotRodPC]

Yep, these young whipper-snappers want to do everything at once! Us old timers know how to do it without these new fangled gadgets.

No doubt !!! Had I waited around to acquire expensive special tools, or took the time to chase them down, I'd have never learned the things I have. I firmly beleive exersizing the mind pays off in big divedends. I made alot of my own tools for transmisisons, and I imporvised many times and made do with what I had. I seen a guy once with this fancy ass wobble, and a uniseral swivel on a "Special" spark plug socket one time, I think it was for Aerostar Vans. Said it was a must have tool or you couldn't start the plug. I said BS, give me a 6in piece of 3/8 fuel line hose. I stuck the hose over the top of the spark plug to hold it, guided it in, then at that funky angle, twisted the hose and it threaded that plug into the hole. He couldn't beleive it. Then says, what if it strips??? How can you strip it, the hose will spin on the plug tip before it would strip the threads, its 100% dude or your money back on the piece of 6in hose. I'll guarentee it. LMAO, after I showed him that trick, he said he used that hose to start almost all his plugs from them on, and then used a socket wrech to snug'em up. It works for real. I didn't need no tools that looked like they came out of an ob/gyn office.

 

[RetroC10Sport]

No doubt !!! Had I waited around to acquire expensive special tools, or took the time to chase them down, I'd have never learned the things I have. I firmly beleive exersizing the mind pays off in big divedends. I made alot of my own tools for transmisisons, and I imporvised many times and made do with what I had. I seen a guy once with this fancy ass wobble, and a uniseral swivel on a "Special" spark plug socket one time, I think it was for Aerostar Vans. Said it was a must have tool or you couldn't start the plug. I said BS, give me a 6in piece of 3/8 fuel line hose. I stuck the hose over the top of the spark plug to hold it, guided it in, then at that funky angle, twisted the hose and it threaded that plug into the hole. He couldn't beleive it. Then says, what if it strips??? How can you strip it, the hose will spin on the plug tip before it would strip the threads, its 100% dude or your money back on the piece of 6in hose. I'll guarentee it. LMAO, after I showed him that trick, he said he used that hose to start almost all his plugs from them on, and then used a socket wrech to snug'em up. It works for real. I didn't need no tools that looked like they came out of an ob/gyn office.

I did that exact same thing for an Aerostar!! Guy told me "you gotta have this to do it." I threw it in the grass and put that plug in with fuel hose! He liked to have **** himself!

 

[HotRodPC]

I did that exact same thing for an Aerostar!! Guy told me "you gotta have this to do it." I threw it in the grass and put that plug in with fuel hose! He liked to have **** himself!

So it probably was Aerostart then. I wasn't positive now if it was Astro or Caravan, but I know it was a domestic minivan and was thinking it was Aerostar. And that was when I was in Cali. Strange how the old tips get passed around for years even in differant parts of the country. I learned that tip from an old dude when I was younger. You don't hear of any of the young guns doing stuff like that. I also use that on V6's where the plugs are up against the firewall.

 

[crazy4offroad]

And there are locating dowels on the motor right?

Yes, 2 of them.

I never got into buying every specialty tool either, if I could get by with what I already have, or make one myself out of **** I already have laying around. Stuff like 4wd spindle nut sockets though, you gotta have. You might be able to make one if you wanna blow the time doing it, or save your time and just buy one. But to turn a flywheel, I'll just use one of those long prybar/bent screwdriver thingys.