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Heads are torqued down, coil packs re-loomed and brackets cleaned up and painted, plug wires cleaned, flywheel installed, and I spent tonight building a flywheel holding tool. I don’t see the point of buying a simple chunk of steel for near $60 in some cases when I flanged this up in about 30 minutes. Some of those junk ring gears I’ve chucked over the years would have sped me up, too. I had to build the teeth chunk by hand with my grinder because I didn’t have a junk ring gear kicking around.

I took a piece of angle iron and measured it for drill holes to bolt into the starter holes. I bolted it on so it sat flush against the flywheel. I clamped my little toothed chunk to the flywheel and I also had it butt up against the engine stand arm, then I welded that bugger on. It should definitely hold for the 240ft/lbs (IIRC) I’m about to unload on that crank snout. It will definitely be more solid than sticking a screwdriver in there and trying to achieve that amount of torque!