John,
I was not able to rig up a screw driver on the teeth of the ring gear as
suggested. Maybe I was not trying correctly, but what I ended up doing was
using
a C-clamp.
First remove the starter. Then thru that large hole in the rear engine
plate, I positioned a 4" C-clamp directly onto the front and rear face of the
flywheel. I used small plywood pieces as scratch protection for the flywheel.
Tighten the C-clamp very tight. The screw of the C-clamp is positioned inside
the hole and the C of the clamp is over the outer edge of the engine plate.
>From there you can put another box end wrench on one of the bolt heads and
position the wrench to "hold back" on the C-clamp. This will remove three of
the four bolts. For the last bolt I simply let the screw of the C-clamp
contact
the inside edge of the starter mounting hole of the engine plate and was
able to break it free.
Installation is the same in reverse. I had my flywheel resurfaced when I had
it out so I was not too worried about scratching it during removal, but
really I did not mar the fresh surface either on installation.
Good luck,
MRankin
1971 TR6 CC 61212 L
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