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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