Series 3 Flywheel removal without a puller

Simon Perks · Oct 30, 2021

(posted in error under stole a few minutes ago - don't try posting whilst lying under the landrover on yer mobile phone)

So time to change the main bearing oil seal.
Nope the flywheel is not shifting, going to remove the starter motor so that I can hit the flywheel from behind to get it moving, then use the clutch plate bolts to wiggle it off.

Anyone got any other trick.

greetings from the Alp

Simon

tottot · Oct 30, 2021

Probably stuck on the dowel, look carefully between the bolt holes and you should see it. Easing oil and tapping around the outside of the flywheel should shift it.

Bobsticle · Oct 31, 2021

Clean the edge and re mark all the timing points while it’s off.

I didn’t

Dippypud · Oct 31, 2021

Simon Perks said:
(posted in error under stole a few minutes ago - don't try posting whilst lying under the landrover on yer mobile phone)

So time to change the main bearing oil seal.
Nope the flywheel is not shifting, going to remove the starter motor so that I can hit the flywheel from behind to get it moving, then use the clutch plate bolts to wiggle it off.

Anyone got any other trick.

greetings from the Alp

Simon

Take the starter out if you haven’t already, get a length of wood long enough to go through the starter hole and touch the flywheel.
Tap the wood , turn the flywheel repeat until the desired result happens

lynall · Oct 31, 2021

I can remember my s2 diesel flyhwieel being a right cock to get off, no room for bars, and when it did come losse it managed ot wedge itself in the flywheel housing!
Then there was that crappy rear main seal, what a quality design.

cornish rattler · Nov 1, 2021

I normally screw two long bolts into two of the clutch pressure plate securing bolt holes but oposite each other and pull on them

Series 3 Flywheel removal without a puller

Simon Perks

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