Re: locking engine with part ROPE-4'

["Graydon D. Stuckey" <graydon@apollo.gmi.edu>]

On Sat, 15 Jun 1996, Mark Eissler wrote:

> >From: Paul.Heneghan@bbc.co.uk (Heneghan,Paul)
> >
> >Final question - how do you lock the engine without the special tool.
> > Can you wedge a screwdriver against the teeth on the flywheel?
snip...
> Disconnect battery negative lead. Next, remove the starter. With the
> starter gone, slide the piece of angle iron into the starter opening in the
> bellhousing. The angle iron should be positioned so that it looks like the
> top left corner of the outline of a box. So that a leading edge is jammed
> inbetween two teeth on the starter ring gear and that the other leading
> rests on the bottom of the opening. (Flipping the iron the other way--so
> that a flat edge rests on the bottom of the opening--does not work, it's a

It's a lot safer, cheaper and easier to stuff about four feet of a nylon 
rope in the number one cylinder when its at BDC, and crank on the big 
bolt.  Works every time for me.

Later,								
Graydon D. Stuckey								
graydon@apollo.gmi.edu								
Flint, Michigan   USA
'86 Audi 5000 CS Turbo Quattro, GDS Racing Stage II