Steve, It may or may not make a difference, but was the case align bored? It's been more years (decades, actually) since I last worked on a VW engine, but I remember something about align boring the case during a rebuild for the main bearings and I think (I could be wrong) that may affect the leaking case issue. Maybe someone more savy with current VW experience can answer that.
Gene Leone, Worland, Wyoming When you give a lesson in meanness to a critter or a person, don't be surprised if they learn their lesson. -------Original Message------- From: KRnet List-Post: krnet@list.krnet.org Date: 07/19/04 21:11:41 To: KRnet Subject: @CHECK++ RE: KR> Oil Leak Well... I spoke with Steve at Great Plains and Dan Deihl. Nobody has ever experienced the problem I am having. When the last repair was made, we did coat the gasket with permatex, installed a new flywheel and gland nut from Steve at GP. THis time most of the gasket was still in place but it still leaks like crazy. Richard Shirley and I removed the flywheel and mag drive this afternoon. Here's what we found; Initial inspection indicated the oil is coming from behind the gland nut washer and around the dowel pin area. We removed the mag drive and Locking mechanism for the gland nut. After the last repair, Richard machined this nifty key lock mechanism with a new mag drive to prevent the gland nut from loosening up. Before removing the gland nut, the prop hub and flywheel were checked with a dial indicator and showed .003 run out. When removing the gland nut we found it to be torqued to only 25 ft lbs. This is the part we can't figure out. The gland nut was securely locked into place after torqing to 217 ft lbs the last time it was assembled. The nut cannot turn once the key is in place and was still in the locked position, however, the nut was loose??? The dowel pins are well below the surface of the flywheel. Inspection of the threads in the crank shaft showed they were flattened a bit but engage the gland nut by around .020. It doesn't appear that it is jumping threads under load. The only thing we can do next is a complete tear down. I was dreading this.... I'll keep you all posted just in case someone else has a similar problem in the future...go figure I get to be the first! Thanks for everyone's input... Regards, Steve Glover KR-2 N902G AJO, Ca _______________________________________ to UNsubscribe from KRnet, send a message to krnet-le...@mylist.net please see other KRnet info at http://www.krnet.org/info.html
