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Flywheel prep work

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darthcual

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Ok my new flywheel should be in on monday or tuesday of next week. What do i need to do as far as cleaning any oils off of it for the install? Any suggested products? Thanks
 
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I used brake cleaner? Also don't drop it on your fingers... that fawking hurts like hell...
 

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What kind of flywheel did you buy? I have a fidenza aluminum flywheel and I had to bolt the weight on and put the dowel pins in. It came with a little tube of green loctite for the weight bolts and dowel pins that must be used.
 

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I used brake cleaner to take off any rust protective films on the flywheel...

Ford Pressure Plate Bolts and Flywheel Dowel Pin Set - 397-M-6397-A302
 

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Boss 351 said:
I used brake cleaner? Also don't drop it on your fingers... that fawking hurts like hell...
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Bingo I also put loc-tite on the flywheel bolts. Some people just use blue rtv too.
 

darthcual

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Grn92LX said:
What kind of flywheel did you buy? I have a fidenza aluminum flywheel and I had to bolt the weight on and put the dowel pins in. It came with a little tube of green loctite for the weight bolts and dowel pins that must be used.
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I stayed with the stocker iron style flywheel for more off the line powerlus this is a budget build and those aluminums are farging expensive. So yall used locktite to secure the bolts? My haynes manual says to use teflon tape? Maybe thats wrong. Thanks for the tips.
 
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