rear flywheel bolts
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rear flywheel bolts
well they aren't really flywheel bolts, but they hold a peice of sheet metal to the crankshaft on an AT 2.2t . I'm going to put the engine in a manual transmission car so i need to get them off. There are eight bolts there, and they are darn tight. Has anybody had this problem? I have broken two 14mm sockets with my breaker bar already. Next thing i will try is an pnuematic impact wrench i guess if i can barrow one. - Any other ideas?
They're flexplate bolts. And that piece of sheet metal is the flexplate. You just gotta put some man into it and they'll come loose.
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You're thinking of the other bolts that hold the converter to the flexplate. Those are pretty easy to do.
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Re: rear flywheel bolts
Impregacy wrote:well they aren't really flywheel bolts, but they hold a peice of sheet metal to the crankshaft on an AT 2.2t . I'm going to put the engine in a manual transmission car so i need to get them off. There are eight bolts there, and they are darn tight. Has anybody had this problem? I have broken two 14mm sockets with my breaker bar already. Next thing i will try is an pnuematic impact wrench i guess if i can barrow one. - Any other ideas?
They serve the same purpose as the flywheel bolts (but are shorter due to the flexplate being thinner than a flywheel) Get a Craftsman 14mm 1/2" drive socket (and a breaker bar if you do not already have one). If it breaks Sears will give you a new one, so you can try again

Jam something big through the access hole and flexplate to keep the thing from turning, and go for it. When you drop this engine into the MT car, you will need the flywheel and flywheel bolts from the old engine (unless the flywheel is bad (look for cracks where the flywheel mates with the clutch disc), in which case you need a new flywheel)
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Torque spec on those is only 58lb, IIRC, you need to spray the shit out of them with liquid wrench or gunk. They shouldn't be giving you this kind of trouble. I have never had a problem with them once the flex plate was secured by jamming a screwdriver through the access plate on the top of the block...
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thanks guys. I finally got them. Never thought to use that access hole -that was a much better way to hold it than what i was doing earlier. Anyway i got a $6 1/2" drive socket. put it on my breaker bar and had to have someone hold the whole engine to keep it from lifting off the floor. i must be lucky the heads didn't twist off.
Nah, those things are hardened steel, quite hard to twist in half. . .Impregacy wrote:thanks guys. I finally got them. Never thought to use that access hole -that was a much better way to hold it than what i was doing earlier. Anyway i got a $6 1/2" drive socket. put it on my breaker bar and had to have someone hold the whole engine to keep it from lifting off the floor. i must be lucky the heads didn't twist off.
1992 Legacy L Wagon 'Emily" Ice Blue, plush seats, roof rack, towing hitch, upgraded radio/CD player, LS alloy wheels, and lots of love! 180K miles and going very strong!
You will get my Legacy from me when you pry my cold dead fingers from the wheel.
You will get my Legacy from me when you pry my cold dead fingers from the wheel.