I assume you have the shop manuals. One mistake frequently made is to take
the flywheel off first. The screw holding the pulley on the front of the
engine should be removed first. The flywheel must be immobilized to getthe
screw off the front of the e-shaft.
I at first tried an angle iron and bent it. I then got a 3 inch channelsix
foot long.
The right tools are important. You will need a  2-1/8" 54 mm socket and you
will need a 3/4 inch breaker bar with a 6 foot extension or a good 3/4 drive
impact wrench. Harbor freight is a good source as you won't be using these
things that often. You will also need a 5 pound sledge hammer minimum.
Assuming of course you have a manual transmission engine.
If not a manual you will need a special gear puller than can be made or
bought from Mears Motors. Once you get the screw off the front and the
flywheel or counter weight off the e-shaft the rest is trivial and can be
done in less than 5 minutes.
It will take a day to clean the rotors each so I would farm them out toan
automotive machine shop and get a quote ahead of time because they don't
know what they are getting into :)
Paul Lamar
Paul,
I bought the socket on ebay quite a while ago.
Harbor Freight had a 3/4 breaker bar for $10.
Seldge hammer, check.
I downloaded some manuals last year. I have had a hard drive
crash since then so I will go looking again.
I have lots of black pipe laying around. I just redid all the gas
pipe in the house. We are doing an extensive (gutted the plaster and
lathe) )remodel and the gas pipe was way wrong. They used galvanized
fittings. Natural gas corrodes galvanization. It is a big no-no.
The motor is new (third hand), so very little clean up. I think it
was a spare generator motor(Canada?). I bought it from Dean Head. It
is a 89-91 with ceramic apex seals and normally aspirated rotors. I
think it was rebuilt and rebalanced by a shop out east, I think the
oil bypass modification has been done.
It was shipped with the auto flex plate removed. I hope the both
nuts are not to tight. The counter weight is on, so the automatic
"SST" lock will work.
It has a one of Richards apex oil pumps, which I would be willing to sell.
It also came with a set of your old intake manifolds that I would
be willing to sell.
I'll pick up a counter weight lock and puller.
Thanks,
Blake
"I have had a hard drive crash"
No! Not YOU Blake????
I got so tired of backing up the system on 32 gig USB sticks I set up
a new computer with two 500 gig hard drives. I am almost there but the second drive
does not come up when I boot. I think it is not listed in fstab.
How do I fix that? Here is what I have to do now:
"mkdir hard-drive2"
"mount /dev/sdb1 /home/XXXXX/hard-drive2"
Paul Lamar
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