If you just need to hold it in a vice, you can use a spare drive flange
or flange from driveshaft as they are all 10 spline and the same
diameter.
jimfoo wrote:
>
> 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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> 1966 88" Elephant Chaser
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> "You know, I never really damaged my Rover 'till I started wheeling
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