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On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 11:43, David Hornback wrote: > I pulled out my motor to replace the front oil seal (flywheel seal), and after getting stuff back together I decided I was going to do my valves while I had the motor out etc... > > When I went to turn my motor to TDC #1, at the flywheel it wouldn't budge! NOTHING, it is stuck. It moves less than 1 cm each way (with a regular ratchet). > I was able to get it to move a little bit with the breaker bar, but it requires WAY too much force! > > Any ideas what I did? I had the motor up on it's face (front side down) for a short while, while I replaced the strainer. Could this have caused something to come loose inside? > What year do you have? Only the 12V flywheels get the O'ring. And it goes into a groove in the flywheel. If you put it next to the shims, that is your lock up. If you have a 6V flywheel, there is a steel gasket between the flywheel and crank end. If it is a real early 6V, it could have a paper gasket instead of the steel gasket. Or, when you tipped the engine up on end, you could have gotten oil on top of a piston on the down hill side. Pull the spark plugs and look for oil. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT '71 FB AT '65 Bug (not running) russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org