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On Tue, 2005-07-05 at 20:42, Jim Adney wrote: > > In about 1972, way before I had any real stash of parts, I needed some parts to > build a second engine, so I bought a bunch of stuff from a place in CA that > parted out engines and sold parts. One of the things I bought was a flywheel. > > At some point I discovered that this flywheel was not the same as the one in my > '68 square. It was a 6V 200mm flywheel. I called the place and they promptly > replaced it and asked me to send the 6V flywheel back. I still remember their > surprise: They didn't think they had ANY of those flywheels anywhere in all > their stuff. > > My impression is that these were always very special items, much sought after > by the hot rod crowd. > > I think a replacement is going to be hard to find. No harder than Keith drives, I could send him a 6V 180mm flywheel, and the clutch would last forever. ;=} -- Russ Wolfe '71 FB AT '66 FB MT '64 T34 (not running) '65 T1 (not running) '05 KIA Sorento SUV russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list | mailto:gregm@vwtype3.org ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~