Re: [T3] Transmission rebuild

[Jim Adney <jadney@vwtype3.org>]

On 31 May 2007 at 16:48, russw wrote:

> On Thu, 2007-05-31 at 16:46 -0500, Jim Adney wrote:

> > 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.

Okay, thanks. It's because it's a 4 cycle, so we get 4 compression 
strokes per 2 revolutions, which works out to 180 deg per.

Reading your post, I had jumped to the conclusion that you meant to 
move it by 90 and then move it later by another 90 and so on. I see 
now that you meant, and said, just one iteration.

I'd never really noticed variations in the wear around the flywheel. 
I'll have to take a better look.

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Jim Adney, jadney@vwtype3.org
Madison, Wisconsin, USA
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