Re: Flywheel "Puller" plater discovery

[legendre]

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quote legendre:

And you still have to remove the gas tank, as there’s no easy way to hold the flywheel to operate the “puller” or torque the flywheel nut. I suppose you could use a piston stop, but.. I’m not sure how those dainty little connecting rods would feel about it. I can say from experience they’re made of some pretty soft stuff.

A strap wrench is the easiest and proper way to hold a flywheel while torquing or removing a flywheel and one of these should be in every outboard motor enthusiasts tool box. 😀

Absolutely.. but that misses my point.. because you can’t place the strap wrench without first removing the gas tank.

If you use a conventional puller, you can remove the flywheel by following these steps:

1) Remove recoil housing – (3) screws.
2) Remove fine-wire spring-retainers (3) from recoil ratchet pawls on pulley, and lift off equalizer disc.
3) Remove screws securing pulley to top of flywheel. Unscrew each a bit at a time, evenly, until you can lift off the whole pulley / ratchet assy.
4) Remove flywheel nut with air impact tool, 3/4" socket.
5) Install flywheel puller and pull flywheel. If you need to hold it steady to torque the pressure screw, you can slide a bar between the puller drawbolts.

No need to remove the gas tank. Re-install is reverse of procedure, again using air impact to torque flywheel nut. But if you’re using the ‘built-in’ puller, there is no easy or safe way to slip a bar in place during step #5.. So you end up removing the gas tank to get a strap wrench in place, or using a piston stop (not really recommended).

But hey, we all have our methods, right?