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Can anyone tell me how to remove fly wheel and spigot bush. Fly wheel seems hard to remove, do they seize on?

Give the flywheel a tap from behind as you rotate it. They are tight.
I use the old fashioned method of removing spigot bushes - that is; pack the hole with grease then using an old front shaft from a gearbox and a club hammer, hit the main shaft into the hole. The grease works in behind the bush and pushes it out without any damage whatsoever.  Keep packing more grease in as the bush starts to come out.

Yes it does work.  :o   I have done it many times   


Ken

Just a note on Ken's comments, it is entirely correct for all grey (and red, blue and black) powered cars. It may save some unwary person from having to dismantle their engine....

Using a spiggot shaft or other close fitting drift works fine on the older cars. A hydraulic effect occurs as the grease forces the bush out. This is fine on all cars to my knowledge up until the mid nineties.

With newer cars, some have a hollow crank with a welsh plug that goes into the other end. When you try this method the welch plug pops out, thus requiring the engine to be dismantled. Check before merrily pounding away.

I would hate to see someone caught out in this way, requiring the engine to be partially dismantled.

Regards

Keith
F4+
 ;)

Keith

Thank you all for advice shaft and bush came out using your techniques, love your work, regards Fred.

I had trouble getting the spigot bush out. I tried the grease and pound method, however the bush was well and truly jammed.

My second last resort was trying to use a slide hammer to pop it out and that did nothing.

Then the last resort was the long and tedious process of using a hacksaw blade to cut a wedge out of the bush so I could tap it out with the slide hammer. This worked fine but took ages.

Also, when you put the new bush in, make sure you wack it in far enough. I made the mistake of not pushing it in all the way and had to dismantle everything again.  http://fefcholden.org.au/forum/index.php/topic,8550.20.html

Cheers,

Phil

i didn't know kens genius method unfortunately so i drilled a series of pilot holes in 6 places then went bigger until i was almost near steel. i figured if the drill hit the fly wheel it would push it self back into the brass cause it is much softer.knocked the pieces out with hammer and screwdriver easily with no damage at all.it was definately bodgey but it worked.