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bass gt · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:02 am Post subject: Clutch bellHousing Help

Guy's,

i am trying to remove the bellhousing from my spare engine, but seem to be having a bit of bother. I cannot seem to remove the lever shaft. I have run an M8 stud into it and used a puller, but with no joy. Am i missing something obvious??

thanks,

Steve

Smoothie · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 2:24 am Post subject:

Haven't had to do it yet myself, but it sounds like fun. Not!
Looks like you need to use a slide hammer. Have a look here - http://www.924board.org/viewtopic.php?t=11041
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-nick · Joined: 16 Nov 2002 Posts: 2699 Location: Cambridge, MA

If the spare motor is out of the car, you can pull the pin out that covers the top of the shaft, then use a metal punch/rod and beat the shaft out from the top. Or use the slide-hammer method from the bottom. You can often borrow them from your local generic auto parts joint.

Squirt some PB Blaster down in the hole from the top too. The shaft can really cement itself in there.

nick

bass gt · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 5:37 am Post subject:

Slide hammer eh?? Hmmmm.
I get visions of it all going horribly pear shaped (wrong) once you leave the safe confines of engineering and enter the realm of brute force and ignorance!!!
So i guess once the lock nut is removed, it is just a case of give it hell.
Cheers guy's, i was worried i was missing something really stupid!!

Steve

numbbers · Posted: Wed Mar 29, 2006 11:39 am Post subject:

Follow the Haynes, and use a slide hammer. I used an el-cheapo slide hammer from a body repair kit, but replaced the sheet metal screw with an 8mm screw. You will have to wak it hard several times, but it will pull straight out.
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Kenodog · Joined: 25 Jun 2003 Posts: 2669 Location: Vancouver,B.C.

Because the shaft is steel and the housing is aluminum when it gets moist it causes galvanic corrosion.The ions of the lesser material bind with moisture to form a substance I like to call Crud. Crud acts like glue.Hence your current problem.
When you replace the shaft with a new one make sure you put a coating of anti-seize on it and you shouldn't have this trouble the next time.
My $.02
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ic932 · Joined: 11 Feb 2005 Posts: 1104 Location: UK

If the slide hammer does'nt work (and this has happened to me before), all is not lost. Simply undo the nine pressure plate allen bolts through the stater motor hole and then remove the bellhousing complete with clutch assembly. Remove the circlip in the release bearing and lift out the pressure plate......now you will have access to cut the shaft a cm either side of the siezed (frozen) area where the shaft has binded to the alloy bellhousing. Simply punch the remaining pieces out of the bellhousing. Tedious method but better than a cracked bellhousing due to over zealous hammering.

Dave.

Benino · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 7:48 am Post subject:

I had one that was really stuck. I Used a combination of pulling on the bottom and pounding it through from the top.
With the engine out of the car you can use a long bolt to pound it out from the top. There is a pin that keeps the lever rod from being pushed in too far when you install it from the bottom. It only blocks about 1/2 of the top end of the rod. I got a long bolt, put it in through the hole on the top against the exposed part of the top of the lever rod and pounded down with a sledge. It came out.

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Paul · Posted: Fri Apr 07, 2006 8:58 am Post subject:

Someone posted recently that you can also remove the starter then remove the pressure plate bolts through the hole. After this the bell housing can be removed, but be ready to catch some heavy parts!
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bulldog fred · Joined: 03 Mar 2006 Posts: 13 Location: uk - portsmouth

steve if you haven't done it yet i have stripped a few down now and none of them come out with just the 8mm stud you have to use brute force from the bottom opening once you locate the pin the rod stops against there is plenty of room for a small drift to fit either side of the end pin and then bring out your enforcer and the job should be done !!!!!regards -fred
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