T3: RE: Thanks for "green light" help...

["Erkson, Toby" <toby.erkson@intel.com>]

Greg, I already read your other reply about the filter, glad everything 
works now!

In response to the below question, no, you no longer need to drop the 
engine and use a flywheel lock to break the crank bolt free that holds the 
pulley fan.  I designed a pulley lock that holds the pulley so one can 
easily remove/replace its retaining bolt.  The pictures haven't been 
developed yet but I will post them in the next couple of weeks and let 
y'all know.  Oh yeah, it works too as I used it on my engine (mine requires 
125-ft/lbs of torque).

I know an impact wrench can be used but some of us don't have an air
compressor 
(yet) in our home garage :)

I would not recommend using the torch on the special cover.  A reason it
fails 
is due to particulates interfering with the spring, not in the springs
ability 
to expand/contract due to heat.  Remember, it responds to *pressure*.
    Toby Erkson
    air_cooled_nut@pobox.com  <-- Please use this address for email
responses
    '72 VW Squareback 1.6L bored and stroked to 2.0L
    '75 Porsche 914 1.8L, ORPCA member
    Portland, Oregon, http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/8501/

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Subject: Thanks for "green light" help...
Author:  Greg Merritt [SMTP:gregm@vwtype3.org]  at MSXGATE
Date:    4/3/98 5:50 AM

Thanks to all who responded to my "green light" crisis...

     It does sound like the Berg relief cover is a likely culprit.  Argh.

     I have removed the fan on a manual-trans car by putting the car in gear
to
keep the engine from turning.  What to do with the automatic 
transmission?!?  Is pulling the engine & using a flyheel lock the *only* 
way?  What about all of those access holes in the tranny--can I immobilize 
the engine by wedging something in there, or can those parts not take that 
kind of torque without damaging them?  Argh...

     (Any reason why I shouldn't try to "liberate" the cover's bypass valve
with some help from a propane torch?)

-Greg "unhappy camper" Merritt
'69 Squareback (no oil pressure)
'71 Squareback (blown muffler [backordered!] & cracked header = LOUD) 
'63 Beetle (2,500 miles away)