Flywheel Removal Tool Continued...

Okay, I had to give it a quick paint job (with spray paint, of course) to make it look a little bit better.  Otherwise it looked like a chunk of metal found on the side of the road after a filming of Mad Max.  Don't worry, I kept the paint out of the threads.

With the second nut welded to the top of the carraige bolt,  it is then threaded through the 'Greeny Meany'.  Bolt it to the flywheel like a regular Pressure plate, and start tightening the bolt down.  I had to use a carriage bolt, because they were the only ones long enough, that had enough thread.  Regular bolts just go to a smooth shank after so much thread.

And with only a few turns with my large crecent wrench, I head a little 'pop' and the flywheel was off!  Sucsess!  And I also found that it in fact WAS my cam plug that was leaking!  Can't tell in this picture, but the plug is a little cockeye'd in the hole.  Damn the luck!  Oh well, pulling the flywheel in the future to fix this sort of thing wont be a problem now!

No, your eye's aren't decieving you, the tool is light enough to hang on some cheesy pegboard!  Actually, I thought this was as good a place as any to put up a picture of my garage.  That's my 2276 sitting in my Radio Flyer while the flywheel was being pulled. What should I build next, an engine stand to run my engine on when I'm done rebuilding?  Hmmmmm...........

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