What's the best way to lock the flywheel w/o buying the tool?

 

If you have a buddy with a mig welder, you can take a piece of 36" x 1" x 1/4" steel flat stock and weld 2 - 1/2" x 3" dowels on the end to fit into the damper. The dowels will key into the front damper.

 

That would be nice but I was hoping for something more simple.

 

jam a screwdriver in there

 

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I havent tried this on an LS1, but I've done it on many other cars.

 

a buddy with a prybar on the teeth....work for me

 

same here

 

Are you Replacing your damper?

 

Bingo!

 

I think I'll try the buddy with a prybar method. My origional idea was to do the screw driver but it broke a soon as I tried to break the crankbolt loose.

 

Prybar should work

 

I used a thick craftsman screwdriver to hold mine in place, worked great.

 

A very thick screw driver will work, or pry bar. Easiest way to do this is pop open the peek hole, get the prying tool of your choice, stick it in one of the holes in the flexplate, slowly turn the crank bolt, let the tool it pry itself against the trans housing until it's sitting in place, and then yank away on the bolt.

Done that for years and works fine. I'm too much of a cheap *** to buy the "flywheel holding tool". My pry bars work just fine and they're already paid for

 

I jammed a screwdriver between some teeth while my buddy did the work. Real easy.

 

1. get a waterhose
2. turn it on
3. put in throttle body
4. start car


4 easy and ghetto steps to lock the flexplate.

 

Is this to get the crank bolt off? If so, I just use an impact gun... But to put the bolt back on, screwdriver

 

Ghetto? Have a buddy hold the breaker bar, you turn the key. Make sure it has room to swing before it hits something, otherwise the car won't start and you won't have enough torque to break it loose.

 

Lmao at 2 of the last 3.

... And to the other guy my car is A4

 

craftsman makes an adjustable prybar, Also remember there are tapped holes in the back of the cylinder heads that you can slightly thread a bolt into to hold the prybar/screwdriver/ghetto tool in place while you remove the bolt