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Old 06-28-2007, 09:09 PM
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one of these things is not like the others.....



Tell me what's wrong in that picture..........

Here's the reason Jon's GLi transaxle was making that horrendous noise. All six of the flywheel to crank bolts were loose, and I mean REALLY loose. One was bent so bad I had to straighten it with an air hammer just to get it to release from the recess pocket. The crank PTO end was so hammered from the loose flywheel that it took near two hours for Pete and I to remove the flywheel from the motor once the bolts were out due to a large stress riser on the hub-centric. It will need to be machined down for a new FW to fit properly.

The clutch and flywheel are completely toast. The one hole in the crank PTO that had the bent bolt has terrible threads and is going to require some massaging to get back to normal.

This is what happens when you don't use a torque wrench and thread locker on these bolts. Also a big reason why you don't reuse flywheel fasteners....the threads stretch.

Some more pics of the near-catastrophic failure in my gallery....
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Old 06-28-2007, 09:36 PM
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hrm, thread locker huh?




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Old 06-28-2007, 10:24 PM
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Also a big reason why you don't reuse flywheel fasteners....the threads stretch.
To everyone that pissed me off asking me why they should buy new flywheel and head bolts, there's your fucking reason.


Damn Adam. Talk about ghetto rigged. Someone must have had absolutely no clue what they were doing when that thing went onboard.
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Old 06-28-2007, 11:10 PM
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Looks fine to me. Nothing a little thread magic can't fix!
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Old 06-28-2007, 11:13 PM
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fuuuuuuuuck! I always use loctite on em, I did on my teggy. However I didn't have the bolts so i re-used the old. How long did he drive it before it came apart?
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Old 06-28-2007, 11:30 PM
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it's hard to say since he doesn't know when the work was done... but on a good note i'm glad it was only bolts and flywheel and not a tranny gear issue
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Old 06-28-2007, 11:34 PM
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You didn't make it sound so bad on the phone...lol! Man that's ugly. Luckily the damage was limited. Whew!
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You didn't make it sound so bad on the phone...lol! Man that's ugly. Luckily the damage was limited. Whew!
until you get some sort of bearing failure from excessive vibrations.


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Old 06-29-2007, 08:26 AM
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Old 06-29-2007, 10:58 AM
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Someone had that apart after it left the factory. STTTRrrecccctcccchhh bolts
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