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On Wed, 2002-02-27 at 15:38, Jim Adney wrote: > I wrote this at work and got interrupted. Here's the complete version. > > On 27 Feb 2002, at 11:25, Jim Adney wrote: > > The CW crank will need to be balanced and you should just get everything > balanced at the same time. Berg can cut your old 6V ring gear off the > flywheel and weld a new 12V one on in its place before welding. > But he will be going the other way. He needs a 6V ring gear on a 12V flywheel. BTW, VW never "welded" the ring gears on their rebuilt flywheels. They were shrunk fit onto the flywheel. > I have the impression that Berg does the best balancing in the business. > > I've never bothered with 8 dowels, but I do buy the longer dowels from Berg > and ream the crank holes deeper to fit. I have a modified reamer that makes > this fairly easy. There are millions of VW's that have run millions of miles on the street with the dowel pins that VW installed in the stock cranks. -- Russ Wolfe '66 FB MT (It drove) '71 FB AT russw@classicvw.org http://www.classicvw.org ------------------------------------------------------------------- List info at http://www.vwtype3.org/list or mailto:help@vwtype3.org