broken flywheel pin should've used 2084

[auditude at cox.net]

Hi Sachelle,

Sorry to hear about that.  That really does suck.  I was going to suggest you used the wrong
hole, but then I read your post more carefully and see that you did use a different hole.
Hindsight is 20/20 of course, but the observation hole isn't the "official" hole for that unofficial
method.  I don't know why your tranny doesn't have the same hole mine do.  I still believe
that as long as you have the right hole present, the biggest risk is to the crankshaft itself
from twisting, and the flywheel pins aren't in any jeopardy.

Since you now bought the tool this won't help you, but I think the next best thing to buying
the tool, and what I'm going to try to do, is to construct a 2084-type of tool out of a piece of
square tubing and angle iron.  Here is the webpage that describes its simple construction:

http://home1.gte.net/pdooley/AUDITOOL.html

I am going to try to make one of these, as I need to pull the crank pulley off of a motor on a
stand, so that I can put it in the 4ksq without doing the usual core support mod.  It worked
for pulling the motor out of there, but for that motor I had a bellhousing to do the tranny bolt
method with.  I just am not sure where to get bits of metal like that around here (AZ) like I
did in CA.

That's crazy that recently there was another timing pin breaking incident.  Too bad there isn't
already a hole behind it to devise some sort of a pusher tool or something to get the
remnants of the old one out.

As recent as it was, I have already forgotten what the resolution to the other listers broken
timing pin was.  It was solved, perhaps it was with JB Weld, I can't remember which option
actually ended up being used and worked.  I think it did get resolved tho'.

Good luck with getting that resolved.

Ken

scott thomas scott at dreamtheater.zzn.com wrote:
>
> Well, I tried to use the controversial bolt through the bellhousing
> on my 200q, only to break the tdc timing pin. I ended up buying 2084
> anyway, and what was left of the pin broke off 200 miles after my
> upper end rebuild.
>
> Anyway, I'm looking to get a shop to weld up some new material in the
> shape of a pin through the starter hole. I might try Chris Semple's
> idea of buying the pin from a dealer and extracting the stub of the
> old one.
>
> Lesson learned: I'll be another $150 in the hole with the repair of
> the pin. I paid $68 for 2084 from Zelenda. My lesson learned is to
> not take anymore shortcuts and buy the proper tools. 2084 was cheap.
> A flywheel job isn't . Anyway, there were no holes at 9 o'clock on
> the bellhousing except for the observation holes for the pin. I would
> just buy the proper tools from now on.
>
> Anyone repair their pin with success? Any BTDT's?