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On Wednesday 05 September 2001 12:12, Martinez, Leon wrote: > > 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 . > Something I forgot in the last e-mail. To figure out the end play, put just 2 nominal shims in, and install the flywheel/flex plate. Now, measure the freeplay that you still have. Using this measurement, now calculate the aditional shim needed to come out with the proper end play. If you do not have the right size, make some adjustments in the 2 shims that are already in place, to get the total shims thickness that you need. -- Russ Wolfe russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- Unsubscribe? mailto:type3-request@vwtype3.org, Subject: unsubscribe