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I have a technical question for the experienced engine builder. I am still building my engine, a little every weekend as time is short now days. I am still paranoid ever since the stripped cam gear incident. I have bad paranoid feelings about my seemingly perfect careful work so far, I think the mismatched gear took some of my confidence away. I started with ten shims, I placed three of them in and either got it too tight (hard to turn) or too loose when I tightened the crank/flexplate. This was a long difficult thing to do using the gage flexplate puller on and off . I got it around .005 then satisfied put everything together with grease and gasket and rtv and the crank movement ended up around at .01 . The rtv and gasket ended up adding additional thrust clearance, so I removed the flexplate and placed a shim at random , put everything together , tightened to 200 lbs and found that the flexplate and crank assembly tuned easily and smoothly . I tried to measure the endplay and found it very small below .002 . I have a several questions, can I place four shims instead of three at the end of the crank ? How do you compensate for gasket and sealant at the end of the crank that mates the fly wheel/flexplate not to mention the oil bettween shims ; When it is put together ? What happens to the engine and compnents when the thrust is too small to measure and the crank turns smoothly and freely ? Will the engine expand long wise alot and tighten the crank when clearances are below .002 inches? Please answer all of the questions, I do not wish to make the wrong decision and mess something up again . I think if my gage does not measure much play at all, almost zero, because of the grease on the shims and the gasket at the end of the crank it may be ok but I am not shure so let's hear it from the experts. LEON MARTINEZ 1969 SQUAREBACK EFI/AUTO SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ------------------------------------------------------------------- Search old messages on the Web! Visit http://www.vwtype3.org/list/