I have the head off so I have NO compression or belts to hold it from spinning....so how do I keep it from turning while I'm trying to loosen the 4 bolts that hold it on?..help

 

When I had mine off I had to have my brother holt the flexplate with a prybar. Even with compression I needed him to hold it.

If you have a barring tool you could put it in and engage the teeth on the flywheel/flexplate and put a breaker bar in it and let it hit the frame while you loosen the bolts.

 

its easy if you have a barring tool and someone to hold it... if not i put a hardwood block between the notch in the balancer and the crossmember.

 

- try a strap-wrench around it - use the serp belt. Worked fine for me when doing the KDP....

 

air impact?

 

It'll be hard to get an impact down there unless you have the radiator out. I wedged a piece of metal bent at 90* between the notch in the balancer and something else, dont remember exactly what it was.

 

How much space is down in there? I have a 3/8 drive ingrsol rand impact gun thats roughly 4 1/4" long , and has some wicked torque, it has broken off 1/2 bolts on me , repeatedly , and it LOVES to crack my snap on impact sockets....

http://www6.sears.ca/webapp/wcs/stor...ctId=158060720


I also have a 1/2 mac impact http://www.mactools.com/ProductDetai...ItemNum=AW5500

and a set of snap on swivel impact sockets http://buy1.snapon.com/catalog/item....da&dir=catalog

If none of that stuff can get a stubborn bolt out , the blue tipped wrench usually comes out of hiding...

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Well, i guess that might work. I was just thinking about our giant, generic, heap-of-**** impact.