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Sep 1, 2013 | 03:39 PM

Olds Scott

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Flywheel tool

What is the best way to hold the flywheel from turning when installing the harmonic balancer on my 324 engine when on an engine stand?

Sep 1, 2013 | 03:39 PM

svnt442

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Something like this:

Sep 1, 2013 | 03:50 PM

Olds Scott

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Was thinking of some sort of flywheel tooth tool that would bolt to bellhousing some way. Kent Moore mad a lot of these tools but which one for a 324?

Sep 1, 2013 | 04:00 PM

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not familiar with the 324 much but I generally have used vice grips clamped onto a junker flexplate. Butt up against the stand

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Sep 1, 2013 | 08:18 PM

Tedd Thompson

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I think we just stuck a small hooked crowbar(two feet long)between the flex plate and bellhousing catching a tooth. I don't remember it being a major problem....Tedd

Sep 1, 2013 | 08:23 PM

oldcutlass

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Or a long screw driver on the flex plate or torque converter bolts.

Sep 2, 2013 | 12:15 AM

rustyroger

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An old valve heated and bent 90 degrees works just fine

Roger.

Sep 2, 2013 | 07:31 AM

wmachine

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How about the old school trick of taking out a spark plug and feeding some rope into the cylinder with the piston toward the bottom of the stroke. Obviously keep a fair amount out.