Thread: Dumbest Thing You've Seen a Mechanic Do
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Old 02-06-2007, 09:45 AM
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when the enthusiastic but not apparetnly very experienced tech at my indie took the engine out of my 280e euro for some reason he unbolted the flywheel (without marking it) removed the adaptor plate on the back of the engine and then equally inexplicabley put the fw back on.

luckily my favorite machinist caught it on reassembly. (the engine was sitting there with the fw on and no adaptor plate).

it was a few days before they found the matching marks on the crank and fw.

tom w
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