[Vwdiesel] Pressure plate bolts?

mark shepherd mark at shepher.fsnet.co.uk
Tue Nov 9 15:01:39 PST 2010


Take a 13mm or whatever they are, socket and grind the rounded face of the 
socket. Indeed if they are 13mm, then use a 12.7mm [  or 1/2"] one which is, 
naturally tighter.
I do this on ring spanners too if I need a really good fit.
Why spanners/wrenches/sockets have the first mm of grip lost to a rounded 
finish I don't know. Clearly they are not designed by an engineer of my 
callibre ;o)

Mark(UK)


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Bud" <budski at gmail.com>
To: "vw fans" <vwdiesel at vwfans.com>
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 9:39 PM
Subject: [Vwdiesel] Pressure plate bolts?


>
> Well, I've got the car up in the air, the tranny out and the
> flywheel/clutch assy off and I can't get the 6 bolts on the pressure
> plate to crankshaft off.
>
> I've used the trick on Broke VW to lock the pressure plate from
> rotating.  I've got a 4 foot cheater bar slipped over my breaker bar
> and all I am doing is slipping the socket off the bolt heads.
>
> Any tips or tricks?
>
> Thanks,
> Bud
> 85 Golf NA 5 speed
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