Re: [T3] Transmission rebuild

[russw <russw@classicvw.org>]

On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:46 -0500, Jim Adney wrote:
> On 31 May 2007 at 15:20, russw wrote:
> 
> > The only thing, is that over time the flywheel will take some abuse, due
> > to the fact that the starter engages to fast. The trick there is to pull
> > the flywheel every few years and turn it 90 degrees to keep the wear
> > even.
> 
> Doesn't that assume that the engine tends to stop in the same place every time?
> Is that what generally happens?
> 
> I assumed that there were 4 possible places that it would stop, unless you had 
> some cylinders with much lower compression than others. Plus, wouldn't rotating 
> the flywheel upset any balancing that was done originally?
> 
No, think about it, it is a Boxer style engine. the engine flywheel
always stops in one of 2 places, because of the compression. So, turn
the flywheel 90 degrees, and you are onto "fresh" teeth on the flywheel.
Look at a stock flywheel, you will see that most of the wear is 180
degrees from each other.


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russw <russw@classicvw.org>

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