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Re: oshit night (was)

To: spridgets@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: oshit night (was)
Date: Sat, 7 Aug 2004 23:45:25 EDT
In a message dated 8/7/04 8:16:22 PM Pacific Daylight Time, 
spritenut@exit109.com writes:

>  we pulled off the clutch to 
> find not 1 but all 4 flywheel bolts very loose. One was rubbing the clutch.
> A little locktite and back together, some quick tweaks of the dizzy and 
> carb and John says his Midget never ran so good or so smooth.
> I guess a loose flywheel make for a slight vibration from the engine!
> The flywheel bolts did not just loosen up, they were probably overlooked 
> on engine assembly.

Don't count on it.  I have had that happen twice in my 1500--the first time 
was understandable since the idiot Dumb Previous Owner's Dumb mechanic (who is 
probably voting for Bush--8^) [Can't help it Brad, LOL}) put the clutch disk 
in backwards and the springs in it whammied the flywheel bolts until they 
worked loose.  The second time everything was torqued cause I did it myself, 
but 
guess what?  They worked loose again.  I put in some good new flywheel bolts I 
bought from lister Paul Tegler (I think), torqued THEM and have not had the 
problem again.

--David C.

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