front cover removal
12-26-06, 07:37 PM
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front cover removal
after taking out the 3 main pulleys there is a bolt in the middle that needs to come off so that the front cover will slide off..my problem is that the bolt is so tite i cant seem to take it off and wat makes it hard is that the the whole shaft turns with the bolt when trying to loosen it...also the engine is off of the car on a stand....anybody got tips on how to loosen the bolt..ive tried some air tools but it still is too tite...
12-26-06, 08:00 PM
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It is alittle easier with a torch and heat it up, but most of the time its alot easier to just have a big breaker bar and find out the way the motor turns and click the starter with the pry bar wedged on the ground, but since you said you have it apart, I would heat it up, and just hammer it with a big impact to it gives. Funny how that one bolt is the hardest bolt to get off.
12-28-06, 02:27 AM
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alrite i got the flywheel to stop while trying to crank the bolt out...i tried with the breaker bar and its still not budging so i stop and i was thinking if i was spinning it out the rite way so for some safety precautions is the bolt soppose to come out goin the lefty loosy way cause i was also told by someone that mazda cars sometimes have there bolts the reverse way out meaning that tighting the bolt would be loosening it and loosening it would tightin it up...
12-28-06, 03:51 AM
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It comes out like any other bolt. Righty tighty, lefty loosey.
It's tough to get out due to all the loc-tite, like someone else said. I had no problems using my impact gun to remove it.
James
It's tough to get out due to all the loc-tite, like someone else said. I had no problems using my impact gun to remove it.
James
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