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Old 10-25-2003, 01:11 AM
TomJ TomJ is offline
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Originally posted by R Leo
I don't have a shot of the crankshaft mark...I didn't have a digital camera then. This flywheel came from a 1980 240D. Maybe they didn't want any witnesses after pulling that stunt on your donor car, since they goofed up so bad by installing that 34mm pilot bearing. LOL
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If THAT'S the "witness" mark, forget it! There are dings like that all the way around the circumference of BOTH of the flywheels I have, nothing that can be noted as intentionally made either. NOTHING on the crankshaft end!

Drove it today. No vibration and spins up to 5500 like a sewing machine. Doesn't mean it won't destroy the crank bearings in time, so I'll wait till I have time to pull the tranny again to see if I can find any intelligible "witness" marks.

Crossmember still touched the trans case under accelleration (machined the side out, but not enough I guess).
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