[T2] Crankshaft: how screwed am I?

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I think it is savable.

yes use the other dowel holes
don't bang on the crank but grind the high spots down.
the washer is a shim if I am not mistaken and it should be used.  if the 
one you have is damaged I am sure someone here has a boat load of them in 
their garage.  I might even have one or two if I can find them.

if there is no other damage to engine you should be good

Bob


On Sun, 30 Nov 2014, Roger Lemberg wrote:

> Date: Sun, 30 Nov 2014 13:46:06 -0800
> From: Roger Lemberg <phroggie at ieee.org>
> To: type2 at type2.com
> Subject: [T2] Crankshaft: how screwed am I?
> 
> I need some experienced advice here.
>
> When I replaced the gland-nut, it’s pretty obvious I didn’t torque it enough: after about two miles it came loose and the dowel holes in the flywheel and crankshaft were distorted. Obviously the flywheel is toast.
>
> I was fully resigned to the fact that my crankshaft is now a piece of scrap metal when i looked and saw that it was drilled for eight dowels even though the flywheel only had four holes and dowels.
>
> Shouldn’t I be able to mount a new four hole flywheel using these undamaged holes?
>
> Of course there are wrinkles. Literally. Four of them. Around the damaged holes are slight wrinkles so the end face of the crankshaft is not perfectly flat around them. Some pounding and grinding should get rid of them, or am I in denial?
>
> And one more thing: between the flywheel and the crankshaft was a thin steel shim with four perforations for the dowels. Bentley doesn’t show it and I don’t see mention of it any where else. What is it and could it help compensate for an uneven crankshaft face? Is there some name for it?
>
> Or am I deluding myself and. absent a machine shop, the engine  (or at least the block) is history?
>
> Peace
>
> Phroggie and Phrogbus
>
> (was a 70 Sportsmobile conversion)
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