so, installing new clutch. when to torque the bolts, one sheared off. went to the store and got the puller, it sheared off too. Is backed out enough to keep it from moving laterally, should i just leave 5 outta 6 bolts? i tried to drill out the puller, no luck! any suggestions?

 

you want that 6th bolt.. sorry..

Sam

 

Do you mean you broke an Easy-out off in the bolt? Regardless you need all the bolts in and tight. If the remains are sticking out above the flywheel, you should be able to grab it with visegrips.

 

I believe you've got one too many asterisks there, 52.

 

Same thing happened to me on my 7.3. I just left it be. That was about 5 years ago.

 

As was stated earlier, you have to have all 6 bolts. For strength, to keep the pressure plate flat, and to keep the whole rotating assembly balanced.

If you have an "easy out" broken off in a bolt in the flywheel (I'm assuming that's the case) and you don't think you can get it out, remove the flywheel and take it to a machine shop. It's going to cost very little compared to a new flywheel.

 

horse pucky - that fits

 

Machine shop and 80 bucks latter fixed

 

LOL I was thinking Horse Craps

 

I had the same problem...3 bolts later I went to a different store. I was getting grade 8 bolts...WTF? They looked like pot metal inside. No way I should be able to break a grade 8 bolt with less than 25ft-lbs of torque.

Lucky for me they broke off outside of the flywheel so some vice grips could still get on em.

 

How does the machine shop get it our? carbide drill bit or milling bit? Heat to take the temper out of the easyout and then drill and tap? If they can do it seem like we could do it unless it takes a mill to get dead center on the hole.

 

its MAGIC, hehehehehe

 

Yep, and if I told ya the secret, I'd have to kill ya!

 

a coworker was cussing ez-outs the other day. sounds like these, like everything else in the world, aren't made like they used to be.
I'm tellin ya's, I miss the mediocre quality stuff we got a couple decades ago from the taiwanese and japanese factory children! those chinese kids just aren't doin as good a job makin our stuff!!!
JML

 

A lot of bolts and fasteners coming in from Asia and some from India are counterfeit. They are marked with grades but are not truely graded and importers and retailers are getting scammed.