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Trouble removing Flex Plate
satori - April 11th, 2013 at 09:10 PM

Hi all. Im trying to remove a flex plate off a 2.1 wasser and replace it with a fly wheel. The 5 hex head boilts just wont budge. Tried with a impact wrench but with no results. and with a long wrench with a hex head socket but almost stripped them. Any ideads.

donn - April 11th, 2013 at 09:14 PM

Drill the heads off? once the load is off then the remainder of the bolt should be able to be removed easily.

matberry - April 11th, 2013 at 09:29 PM

^^Unless they've been loctited???

Heat and replace bolts

ragged - April 12th, 2013 at 11:09 AM

Get a better quality socket. You will find heavy duty sockets only have 6 flats to contact the bolt head.
Dave

vlad01 - April 12th, 2013 at 12:40 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by ragged
Get a better quality socket. You will find heavy duty sockets only have 6 flats to contact the bolt head.
Dave


yes and long breaker bar.

those bolts I think are like 80 or 90 ft-lb so yeah thats tight for their size.

VolksVair - April 13th, 2013 at 08:42 AM

Daves on the money with a single hex socket, if you want to round bolts & nuts go the double hex, I allways use single hex to crack a bolt/nut then use the double hex to remove if its in a confined area

grumble - April 13th, 2013 at 06:37 PM

Quote:
Originally posted by matberry
^^Unless they've been loctited???

Heat and replace bolts

And use the single hex,the heat will help crack the loctite.