TheSamba.com :: View topic - Anyboby elses flywheel chewing up thier bell housing?

Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:12 am

1968 swinger w/ 1600DP.

I pulled to motor yesterday to start fixing stuff from an overheat and was looking to see if I need a tranny seal when I noticed the bellhousing has a fresh groove all the way around the inside. No cranking problems, no noise from the rear I could hear over the engine. What gives?
I'll throw a pic up directly.

Wed Dec 31, 2008 8:54 am

Check and see if your endplay is way out of wack.

Wed Dec 31, 2008 11:49 am

Yep. Grab the flywheel and see if you can move it.

Max

Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:30 pm

if its not end play issues just a thought but it could have wrong flywheel for the trans,i think the 12 volts have to be clearenced or the 6 volts cant remember, on one of them you have to clearence the transmission inside the bell housing to make the flywheel work

Wed Dec 31, 2008 12:42 pm

68 was 12 volt.

Wed Dec 31, 2008 1:13 pm

Unable to get detect any end play. Looks to be a mismatch of parts, but I'll check the endplay again when I get more crap off the motor.
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Mon Aug 10, 2009 7:44 am

Has anyone else seen this or know the cause? I've got the same problem but the flywheel doesn't seem to have any play. I'm not quite sure what's causing it.

Mon Aug 10, 2009 8:38 am

engine bolts might of been loose and engine slightly moved?

Mon Aug 10, 2009 9:35 am

That's entirely possible cause I was missing the top left engine bolt

Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:09 am

If that bolt is missing,then engine has been out. If there are no shavings anywhere, it may be an old injury.

Mon Aug 10, 2009 11:39 am

If you put an engine with a 12 volt flywheel in a 6 volt trans case that's what it looks like if you use the motor to clearance the case. If there are no fresh magnesium chips then maybe this is what's happened?