A late 1500 flywheel will definitely bolt up to a small bearing 1300, but
not correctly unless you have the kit from Rimmer that someone mentioned.
The bolts are the wrong size - too small for the holes in the flywheel. But
it will bolt on there - of course, then the only thing locating it is
friction and the indexing pin. Bad news! An early 1500 flywheel from 73-74
will fit correctly. I had the former on my car and the crank broke because
of it, I now have the latter. In both cases, the gearbox was a 77 with O/D,
the engine a 69 MKIII.
Kevin Rhodes
At 11:06 03/26/2004, Nolan Penney wrote:
>Well, that's not an answer to the question and doesn't help Dave at all.
>
>If indeed the 1500 flywheel does bolt up to the early 1300 in the Mk 3
>with the small bearings, then I'm all wet. But as I recall, it will not
>do so.
>
>Which leaves Dave a bit up in the air on not only what flywheel he has,
>but also perhaps what engine.
>
>It's been a while since I put the lightened 1300 flywheel on my 1500
>engine. When I initially replied, I recalled that you could swap the
>clutch disc around between the two. But as I think about it more and
>more, I suspect I'm wrong on that. The rim the pressure plate sits on was
>closer in on the 1300, wasn't it? Don't have my flywheels and such here
>to play with, so I can't check it. Ah well.
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