[TR] TR3 Flywheel Install

William Brewer wsb1960tr3a at att.net
Sun Feb 9 21:40:03 MST 2014


     So I have some TR3 flywheel install questions:
     My car has a
replacement crank and has a replacement flywheel from about 15 years ago. On
the back of the block above the crankshaft on the flange where the
transmission bolts up there is an arrow pointing down. On the flywheel on the
edge there is an arrow pointing in. Eureka! How hard can it be? I put the
crank at TDC for #1 piston and went to install the flywheel so the arrows are
pointing at each other and viola! the dowel pin on the crank doesn't match up
with the dowel pin hole (there are two) on the flywheel However, if the
crankshaft flange had a dowel pin in the other dowel pin hole it would have
matched up with an available hole in the flywheel. #!?!#! I am muttering. 
   
 I had the crank, flywheel and pressure plate balanced as a unit. The machine
shop couldn't have mounted the flywheel with the arrow at TDC like I think
that it should have been. There are two ways to mount the flywheel on the
crank for the machine shop to have balanced it, so there is a 50% chance of me
getting it right by guessing. They didn't mark on the crank flange where to
mount the flywheel, but marked the flywheel to the pressure plate. I am not
sure what I'll end up with. If it all shakes, then I can pull the trans out
and reclock the flywheel to the crank flange pin if I have to.
     Next time
I am in there, should I change the dowel pin locations so the arrows match at
TDC for #1? Or do the arrows line up at a different time like #4 TDC or
something at BDC? I couldn't find it in the manual.

     Another thing, last
time I rebuilt the engine I put the flywheel on with the correct bolts, grade
8 lockwashers and red Locktite. It seemed to work well. The flywheel didn't
shear off the bolts and fly out and sever my legs off or anything. Now my 17
year old daughter thinks the car is hers and I want to make extra sure that
the flywheel stays on. I put the locking tabs on as the manual describes, but
once I got my flywheel questions rattling around my head I took the flywheel
back off and the locking tabs can't be used again. Was I okay with the correct
bolts, lockwashers and red Locktite? Or was I lucky?

     Can someone please
respond with my flywheel clocking questions please.
     TIA,

     Bill
Brewer


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