Probably no supprise to you, I made a tool for that nut also out of a
long piece of pipe, so I did it within the confines of the bellhousing.
If you have a spare nut, a piece of pipe, 2" I think, a hacksaw, and a
pipe wrench to operate the tool, you too can make one. Good luck either
way.
William J. Rice wrote:
> Yeah, that's what I did to undo the layshaft nut (twice in the last two
> days--duh) but it'd be HARD to do that for the mainshaft nut since you
> need to use a hammer and punch on it (it's like the rear mainshaft nut
> 'cept even the manual doesn't recommend anything but a hammer and punch
> for this one) and it'd be hard to do that w/i the confines of the
> bellhousing. You pretty much need to have the shaft and bearing out of
> the bellhousing to undo this nut, at which point locking the gears won't
> do much good.
>
> bill, realizing that he's going to have a gearbox in his living room for
> at least two more weeks . . .
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