Sad news...
Right when I was getting ready to install the new flywheel seal - I noticed the rear main bearing was moving a little on the shaft... it could rotated about 1/8" around the shaft... not good
From a little research and talking to a few people from thesamba.com - the main bearing has lost its crush on the case and needs to be rebuilt. So I called a few local VW shops in town. One shops said oh just drive it until it fails - What? Fails - you mean the motor seizes and then it will cost even more money to rebuild...
Another shop said - the bearing has lost its crash and you need new bearing with the case to be bored and thrust cut. So I dropped the engine off on Tuesday and they finished on Friday!
They found the lifters where flat and needed to be replace - the #3 piston was a little scrapped and recommended all of them to be replaced. Then they found the lightened flywheel was a little out of round - and also needed to be replaced (which may have caused the issue to begin with)
They replaced the cylinder spacer from .020 to .080 (.020 lower and .060 upper)
said it should have run a little cooler now)
Engine rebuilt and ready to go:
Now to put everything back together...
1 comment:
Had your engine been running hot? Putting in those spacers on the cylinders lowers your compression ratio. However, the best way to lower cr is to open up the combustion chambers on the heads rather than spacers.
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