jefrino

A neighbor suggested that I drill out the flywheel access hole (by drilling below the existing hole) in order to make the hole larger and oblong as a means of pulling the bent metal rod back out. Can anyone think of any downside into drilling into the flywheel housing (which obviously contains no fluids) to make the access hole larger? (From the photo displayed above, it appears that drilling just ABOVE the access hole would not work out at all well.)

--------- how to remove a bent screwdriver in flywheel access hole? I used the "jam the flywheel method" to get the crank pulley off by inserting a metal rod into the flywheel access hole. The engine was later started up while the rod was still in the flywheel access hole (resulting in a loud scraping noise while the engine was running), and now that rod is bent and will not come out of the access hole. Is there any way to get that bent rod back out of the access hole?