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Thanks to both for your help and giving me confidence to keep going to get the job done. I'm sure i will need more advice and i appreciate your help.

I got it off with a piece of metal between the fins and a medium pair of channel locks. It has only 3 screws holding the plate i haven't checked them for tightness yet but as you can see it looks like the heavy handed honcho left his mark on 1 of the screws like the flywheel nut.

Thanks, i will give it a shot.

Did Homelite have a way to lock the crank to help remove the flywheel nut and or the clutch?

Mig welder would be nice. I do have a dremel with cut-off wheels. First instinct was small vise-grips. A small nut splitter might work after you mentioned the dremel. Thanks for your suggestions and help. I can't believe how rounded this nut is,i see nothing left that resembles a nut with flats!

I'm in the Kansas City area. If you zoom in on what should be the nut i would think ...its round ,no flats on it !!

Thanks for the quick response and help. How do i remove the flywheel to look at mag. backplate ? I see no nut!!?? The oiltank cover looks glued no screws?

Hi I'm new here and know this is an old thread but have come across a Homelite XL 101 which I'm not sure if its the first version with glued tanks or the later version that the tanks are screwed on. All the images that show how to tell the glued from screwed are gone so i will try and post...