anyone have a 1/2 inch impact socket i can use to remove the flywheel bolts (14mm box-end/star-pattern)?
only need it for about 5 minutes.
all u need is a breaker bar and some elbow grease
I hate this damn canadian lingo. For the longest time I thought that elbow grease is an actual lubricant you can purchase at a store and I’ve liver here for many years now.
Unpossible. Take it from someone who knows.
I bought myself an electric impact gun off eBay for like $65. This thing is :bowdown:
However for my flywheel I borrowed a friend’s air compressor.
If you want to mess up the bolts (because it’s very easy to have your
ratchet slip off it), then by all means do it with some ‘elbow grease’ :ugh2:
your going to need a Air compressor
my impact gun will do it no prob… i just need the proper socket for it.
i’ll check around tomorrow and see if i can buy it somewhere… was just hoping some one would be like “yeah, you can borrow mine!” 
I hate this damn canadian lingo. For the longest time I thought that elbow grease is an actual lubricant you can purchase at a store and I’ve liver here for many years now.[/quote]
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i love you pabby marry me :oops:
Pavel is so Russian.
actually, i have taken a flywheel off more than one 240, and have an IR 10 cfm/60 gal air compressor and a matching impact gun, is it nice? maybe but it cant even get lug nuts that are rusty off my parts car. its certainly not something i would go spend >50$ on. as long as your not 140 lbs it shouldnt be to difficult…
i don’t know what kinda guns you guys have, but my Ingersol-Rand kicks ass… it’s some kinda heavy-duty farm equipment electric impact gun.
like i said, i just need the damn socket.
I have a nice Snap-On one made by Blue Point you can borrow, but it has a 1/2" air line inlet. you want torque? MUAHAHAHA.
Theo
Unpossible. Take it from someone who knows.
I bought myself an electric impact gun off eBay for like $65. This thing is :bowdown:
However for my flywheel I borrowed a friend’s air compressor.
If you want to mess up the bolts (because it’s very easy to have your
ratchet slip off it), then by all means do it with some ‘elbow grease’ :ugh2:[/quote]
pussy shit
i took it off with a ratchet on more than 1 engine.
son pussies i tell you
its 19 or 21mm. I have the IR with the bluepoint name on it haha got to love when snapon steels from mac.
no, it’s 14mm… now does anyone have anything useful to post?
i’m still looking for the socket.
nevermind… borrowed the socket from my local mechanic.
thanks anyways.
For anyone else that may need this info in the future, here goes.
I just took the flywheel of a DE in my garage.
First get a johnson bar and 1 1/16" for the front side crank pulley to hold the crank from turning.
I have a Compressor but no impact, and all but one bolt came off succesfully with only my ratchet and my weight bar as a handle extension (the reason people slip off and ruin the bolt is when they’re not square on the bolt head and when they can’t put enough torque on them).
Now the final bolt was tight enough to break the crank pulley bolt loose, so I smashed some teeth out of the old pressure plate, mounted it on the flywheel and slid my tierod bar in with the flatside on the FW face so as not to gouge it. The last bolt came out easily and the FW slid right off.
Canadian tire had a sale on air compressors, I just bought one for $250 bucks, comes with impact wrench, ratchet, an air chisel which is awesome. And I think they are having a sale on air tools now too. Die grinder for 30 bucks. Im buying that soon. 
This is the one, and its at regular price already:
What is all this breaker bar, impact gun crap talk? Its only the flywheel bolts… they come of pretty easily with the proper (12 point 14mm) socket and a simlpe 1/2 drive ratchet… use a screw driver through the flywheel holes on the side give it a little twist and the bolts will come right off. I’m not a big guy and I have never had a problem removing them.