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On Thu, 2006-05-18 at 15:23, Matthew Jones wrote: > Hello everyone, > > I'm building a new 1600 engine for our fastback. > I have a new CB counterweighted crank, and a new stock flywheel > drilled for 8 dowels. When I bolt them together, I get a flywheel to > main bearing gap of almost 1.5mm. This seems far too much. With my old > shims in place, there's a gap (i.e. end float) of 0.8mm. > > I'm trying to do the end float the easy way - with a feeler gauge, on > the bench. > > The flywheel came with a thick paper gasket, rather than a metal one > like you get in a normal gasket kit. It is a Scat part, apparently. > > Does any of this sound right? It doesn't to me. Maybe I've pinched the > O ring or something. I'm emailing this now so I have some answers when > I get back into the workshop tomorrow evening. > Does the flywheel have the o'ring in it too? You should not be using both. There were 3 different crank setups. early was a paper gasket. Then there was the steel gasket. And finally, they went to the o'ring in the flywheel. And, If you have the early crank, with the oring flywheel, you will nned to have some machine work done to clearance the flywheel to fit the crank. -- 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 ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~