Put the hammer down!!!! what you need is a breaker bar- essentially a
ratchet wrench without the ratchet, and longer for more leverage. You may
be able to make do with a short length of pipe slipped over the end of a
standard ratchet wrench. Big bolts like these will take a 'set' and require
a bit more torque to loosen than you might expect. And they will loosen up
with a nice satisfying 'Pop' when you have wrenched vigorously enough. I
am not familiar with your "whatchamacallit" although, if it is anything like
the TR234 block, there are a couple bolts in the lower timing chain cover
which may need to be pulled out to allow the F main bearing cap to be
extracted. check you manual on this....
Good luck.
Bob Westerdale
59 3A TS36967
Okay, so I finally got my TR6's oil pan off. And silly me, figured the rest
would be... well, not easy per se, but at least straight-forward.
WRONG. I can't get at the screws to remove the whatchmacallit that's hiding
the front main bearing cap and when I go to the other end (where the main
bearing cap is nice and evident) I can't get the bolts loosened.
How B a BFH do I require!? The bolts are supposed to be tightened to - what
was it? Hell, I forget, but they seem to be on a lot tighter. Any
suggestions for easing my task?
Cheers,
Frank
'73 TR6 with little metal bits in its oil pan that almost look like the
timing-chain-tensioner-holder-in-place-thing but not quite.
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