Snapped all my flywheel bolts at Steamboat a couple of years ago. Wasn't
too hard to fix at the track once I figured out what was actually broken,
but I would recommend replacing the original units at rebuild time
.......................Henry
-----Original Message-----
From: R. John Lye <rjl6n@virginia.edu>
To: Bob Lang <LANG@isis.mit.edu>; fot@autox.team.net <fot@autox.team.net>
Date: Wednesday, October 07, 1998 1:38 PM
Subject: Re: Crank Question
>At 03:08 PM 10/7/98 -0400, Bob Lang wrote:
>>When you guys crank up the power in your cars, do you add three more
>>dowel pins to the crank/flywheel connection???
>
>I've got an extra dowel pin and extra bolts in my crank.
>
>>but I was wondering if
>>anyone on the list has suffered from flywheel bolt failure of other
>>catastrophic ocurrances on the business end of the crank.
>
>Chip had a flywheel break loose two years ago; he caught me just
>as I was leaving work "uh, could you stop by the shop and pick up...."
>
>
>John Lye
>rjl6n@Virginia.edu
>
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