Date: Mon, 23 May 2005 08:21:25 -0400
Reply-To: Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
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From: Ken Wilford <kenwilfy@COMCAST.NET>
Subject: Re: End play specific to flywheel?
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At this point you should put your flywheel on and forget about it. The
problem is that your end play must be checked and adjusted before the
pistons are installed on the crank. Trying to check or adjust it with
the pistons installed is just going to lead to error. I am sure AVP set
the end play while they were rebuilding the engine and if you put your
flywheel on you should be fine. The back side of the flywheel where it
crushes the shims has to be a standardized. If it was not then every
time someone swapped a used 2.1l from a manual to automatic or just
swapped flywheels because you had a machined flywheel sitting on the
shelf, you would have to re-check and adjust end play. I can tell you
as someone who has installed many, many used waterboxers over the years
and also swapping flywheels for clutch jobs, that I have never had a
single problem. End play is important, but it is something that is
really meant to be dealt with one time (at rebuild) and that is it.
Hope this helps,
Ken Wilford
John 3:16
www.vanagain.com
Mike Jeffrey wrote:
>Thanks! Sorry for yet more questions - what if no flywheel was
>installed? I ordered a rebuild with no flywheel, and am reusing my
>own.
>
>I've uploaded some pics to give you all a better idea of what I'm
>looking at. Thanks a lot for your help!
>
>(caution, large files, approx 600KB)
>http://www.hondamotorcycle.net/images/IMG_0601.JPG
>http://www.hondamotorcycle.net/images/IMG_0602.JPG
>
>Cheers!
>Mike.
>
>
>On 5/22/05, jimt <camper@tactical-bus.info> wrote:
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>>On 5/21/05 7:30 PM, "Mike Jeffrey" <oldbus@GMAIL.COM> wrote:
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>>>Hello and another happy weekend!
>>>
>>>Do rebuilds (specifically those from AVP) generally come with the
>>>requisite seals and shims installed for the flywheel? I've never seen
>>>this part of the engine before - what am I looking for? I'd rather not
>>>start prying things out of there if I don't have to.
>>>
>>>I understand that I may need to change the shims if end play is not
>>>correct, but I need to know what I'm starting off with.
>>>
>>>Cheers!
>>>Mike.
>>>
>>>On 5/16/05, Mike Jeffrey <oldbus@gmail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Good advice from everyone - thanks a lot! I was trying to avoid having
>>>>to learn how to do this - but what's the benefit in that? I've found a
>>>>few good tutorials already.
>>>>
>>>>Cheers!
>>>>Mike.
>>>>
>>>>
>>>>
>>>
>>>
>>If it came with a flywheel already installed then the end play should
>>already have been adjusted and if shims were needed they would have been
>>installed behind the flywheel. When you pull the fly wheel just be sure to
>>get all the shims back in again. No order to them.
>>
>>jimt
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