Installing PTO & Flywheel

[CGAux]

In your installation instructions you show inserting a rag into the piston sleeves to keep the crankshaft from turning when removing the flywheel and PTO wheel, but during re-installation, you advise not to do this. What do you suggest would be the best way to keep the crank from turning on the new engine to re-install the PTO and Flywheel? One suggestion was inserting or threading a rope down the spark plug hole and out the exhaust port.

[Technical Support]

Re: Installing PTO & Flywheel

You don't need to, because you don't need near the amount of torque to install as you do to remove. For the PTO just get it on real snug - it self tightens the first time you're in the water. For the flywheel, simply hold the PTO with a chain wrench, or whatever you used to remove it, and torque the flywheel nut.