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On 04/21/97 19:35:15 you wrote: > >>From: stans4@ix.netcom.com > >>I have seen scrap cases in junkyards both with and without the thick >spacer/shim/thrust-bearing. I read somewhere, wish I could find it, that it >was a correction for a machining oopsie at the factory. Guess the idea was >to machine it down further and put in a standard shim or spacer. The cases >I saw were from all vintages and types, so I don't think anyone's been >singled out. I could see where this could get knocked loose and lost and if >you didn't know about it, you could really get puzzled trying to get endplay >established. Not sure how the thing was fastened in, staking maybe? > >The one I had was loose, just like the usual thin ones. > >Jim > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Melissa Kepner Jim Adney > jadney@vwtype3.org jadney@vwtype3.org > Laura Kepner-Adney > Madison, Wisconsin > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > > > On the ones I saw, the spacer/shim was fastened in more or less permanently, at least it didn't move when I pulled the dist. drive out(what I was looking for in the first place). Went through more than one case, a lot of drive gears were in bad shape. Out of a stack of about 20 cases, I saw maybe 6 that had the thick shim. Of course, with the condition of those engines, maybe they'd gotten welded in there from no oil, I don't know.