Reply To: Tightening flywheel crank nut

[billw]

There are automotive tools that lock into a flywheel’s ring gear. Depending on the exact design of the tool, they will often fit smaller, outboard ring gears. If so, they are a little less awkward to use than a stretchy feeling strap wrench. That being said, most of the time I use a strap wrench…..but that’s mostly because my engines are a little smaller and don’t usually have a ring gear. If I did a lot of RD/Bigtwin stuff still, I’d be using the ring gear flywheel holder. They look something like this:

https://www.ebay.com/itm/363256048061?epid=18044692444&hash=item5493bf69bd:g:ecwAAOSwxjZgUMJo

Long live American manufacturing!