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From: Scott Meyers <solo2@uswest.net>
To: TEAM.NET <autox@autox.team.net>
Date: Monday, May 15, 2000 8:57 PM
Subject: RX-7 Flywheel/Clutch Question
>I will be changing the clutch on an 87 RX-7 this weekend - I hope.
>
>I tried once before and was stymied by the flywheel nut - I could not
>get it loose. At that time I had no air tools. I gave up and just put
>the d_mn clutch on the flywheel 'as was'.
>
>Not this time I vow.......I want to have the flywheel turned.
>
>I have a 12 point 2 1/8" socket and a 250ft/lb Sears air wrench. Also a
>125psi/5.5gallon air compressor tank.
Better. There is a special tool. It has a socket at one end and a sprocket
at the other. You insert it so the socket sits over the nut and the
sprocket meshes with the teeth on the ring gear on the periphery of the
flywheel. There is a fitting on the sprocket so you can turn it with a
breaker bar or ratchet. This does two things: There is a significant
multiplication of torque. You can position the wrench handle so you are
applying pressure at a point on the axis of the power shaft so the engine
does not turn.
I borrowed such a tool from Tony Roggemann of R X Seven Heaven in the Twin
Cities. I'd expect any serious RX7 shop to have one.
Phil Ethier Saint Paul Minnesota USA
1970 Lotus Europa, 1992 Saturn SL2, 1986 Chev Suburban
LOON, MAC
pethier@isd.net http://www.visi.com/mac/
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