Anyone got any good pictures of a simply, home made, tool for locking the flywheel on a duratec?

Tried my impact gun and the flywheel bolts won't budge so time to get the break-bar on it and errr brake something!

Not sure about the duratec specifically but in the past I've used a bit of thin metal with two holes successfully - one hole gets bolted to the flywheel, the other to the engine. You do have to be careful not to bend or damage anything though

My homemade setup


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seen one somewhere, that uses the 2 bolt holes for the startermotor, and locks into 1 tooth of the flywheel

I did the same as Davidmurray but held it on one tooth.

My state of the art flywheel locking tool on an old zetec......

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Originally posted by keithjardine
My state of the art flywheel locking tool on an old zetec......

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Thanks all, some good ideas but keithjardine that is close to genius and I will give it a try tomorrow

That may be close to genius but it doesn't use the awesome power of two hammers:



believe it or not this worked perfectly...

one hammer...
flywheel swap

made one for myself today, had to lock the engine whilst in the car (needed bottom pulley undone)


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the 2 holes pick up the starter motor blots and the box section engages on the ring gear