Thread: 300tdi flywheel removal

Originally Posted by orangeshannon

hi im pulling my 300tdi apart and the flywheels not coming off it i got all the bolts undone but its not comeing off is there a flywheel puller of some sort of these stuck on flywheels?

Hi

If I was confronted with that, I would get a soft faced hammer and drive the out side edges of the flywheel back towards the block, after you have gone around several times and cracked the bind, then try a couple of pieces of flat metal (tyre levers) to prise off the flywheel using a rocking motion.

Good luck!

Add : a improvised puller can be made by using a protrusion (socket) on the boss for the pinion bearing , lay a study piece of metal bar over the socket going across the flywheel with a couple of holes to be drilled in each end of that bar in line with the threaded holes for the pressure plate.
Then by using two long threaded bolts that are fitted with a nut on each, wind down the bolts into the pressure plate holes so they are in with plenty of thread, using the nuts wind them down to tension the bar across the socket and a smear of molybdenum grease on the threads with a washer under the nuts will stop the nuts binding.
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Watch your toes when it pops off, or you will have to change your name to Stumpy, regards Frank.

haha yeh i was watching my toe for sure i was wearing thongs haha, i tried with a decent sized rubber mallet hitting it all over the flywheel and we tried a bar in where the startor goes into so see if it would come off but nope i asked the tool store guy at my work if he got something that would do the job like a puller or something

Give it a spray with Wd40, in behind as well, give it a belt with a brass dolly through the starter hole, if no dolly use a good hard bit of hardwood and lump hammer and belt it through the starter hole while rotating it, if it don't come off then................., Regards Frank.

put 3 of the bolts back in about half way then have at it with a nice solid but soft (hardwood or brass) drift through the starter hole, 3 good hits then rotate the crank about 180, then 90 then 180 then 90 and keep on going, it'll come. Its probable that all thats holding it is either rustite or excess loctite if whoever fitted the dowels applied to much and used the wrong grade of loctite.