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On 5 Feb 2005 at 0:37, Russ Wolfe wrote: > On Sat, 2005-02-05 at 00:06, Jim Adney wrote: > > It doesn't bother me that it's thin, but it does bother me that there's > > supposed to be 1 gasket and 2 steel shims there. The 2 shims mean that there > > are 3 interfaces, so why does just one get a gasket? And yes, that's the way > > they all came from the factory: 1 gasket, 2 shims. > All I have ever seen is 1 Shim. There may be 2 different thicknesses. > But all I have ever seen on a teardown is 1. Even on virgin factory > engines. > 1 metal shim, the dowl pin, and 1 paper gasket. That's odd. Do you think they figured that Iowa didn't deserve both of them? ;-) As a matter of fact, when I'm rebuilding, I generally find that the spacing I get with just 1 is fine. It is just there to make sure the generator belt doesn't hit something. As a result of this, I have quite a few here, left over from previous rebuilds. -- ******************************* Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org Madison, Wisconsin, USA ******************************* ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~