Stumbled across this video while looking for ideas on holding a flywheel while removing bolts.

It's seven years old and the guy is still active so there's a lot of videos to scroll back through for more entertainment.

At 7:10 it looks like he's about to tighten the bolt instead of loosen.  Cut!

 

3 hours ago, Zed Head said:

Stumbled across this video while looking for ideas on holding a flywheel while removing bolts.

It's seven years old and the guy is still active so there's a lot of videos to scroll back through for more entertainment.

At 7:10 it looks like he's about to tighten the bolt instead of loosen.  Cut!

I thread a transmission bolt into one of the bell housing bolt holes in the block, and one in one of the pressure plate holes in the flywheel, and then run some coat hanger or similar gauge wire around from one to the other and back again.  About 4 loops.  Flywheel is going nowhere.

That's a good one.  Hadn't heard or thought of it.

It's actually for a Ford so I'm hoping that I can use the screwdriver through the flywheel hole method.  But I have a brain-list of other options, plus one now.

This worked great for me. Both with loosening, and then re-tightening with engine out of the car:

I'm not sure if all the flywheels had these holes along the outside edge, but I used a tight fitting punch (8mm or 5/16) in the hole and then blocked rotation with a bolt threaded into the block:

This may be old hat to you engine guys, but it worked great.