The Rebirth of Smokey Eddy - The 1.9 Saga

[8v-of-fury]

SExyness

[Smokey Eddy]

so upon pulling the old block out i've found a tooth missing on the flywheel. My friend said i have to get it machined for the new clutch anyways and that i should find one at a wrecker but the amount of work to pull the block out of the tranny and the likely hood of finding one is so low.
so i guess i'll get a new one?

[Smokey Eddy]

mine is just missing a tooth.. do you think that's a big deal? it only has to do with starting... and i never noticed an issue.

[8v-of-fury]

you've probably just always been lucky enough that portion never came around while starting.. lmao

However, if it is only one tooth.. it couldn't be too much a problem

[theman53]

The cheap guy in me would just weld it back on and grind it down.

[Smokey Eddy]

the tooth? the tooth is missing...
i think i'll remove a tooth on the opposite side for balancing.
There is no marring on the starter at all. and for the hundreds of times it's started the starter must have passed the missing tooth.

[Smokey Eddy]

my oil cooler sandwich plate thing!

Just look at the blue-ing on that pressure plate. It's not hard to tell it had slipped a few times at high speed.

There is almost no friction material left on this clutch. its alllmosttt metal on metal

[theman53]

the tooth? the tooth is missing...
i think i'll remove a tooth on the opposite side for balancing.
There is no marring on the starter at all. and for the hundreds of times it's started the starter must have passed the missing tooth.

Look at my thread dude LOL. The floor was gone. I would wire weld a glob on there and grind a "new" tooth into shape.

[81 vw pu]

so upon pulling the old block out i've found a tooth missing on the flywheel. My friend said i have to get it machined for the new clutch anyways and that i should find one at a wrecker but the amount of work to pull the block out of the tranny and the likely hood of finding one is so low.
so i guess i'll get a new one?

Is the tooth broken off all the way through, or just chipped on the starter side? I have heated the starter ring gear, removed, and flipped so the good side faces the starter. If you have another trashed flywheel with a good starter ring gear you could just swap the ring gears. Maybe even buy a new ring gear as a last resort.

[Smokey Eddy]

so upon pulling the old block out i've found a tooth missing on the flywheel. My friend said i have to get it machined for the new clutch anyways and that i should find one at a wrecker but the amount of work to pull the block out of the tranny and the likely hood of finding one is so low.
so i guess i'll get a new one?

Is the tooth broken off all the way through, or just chipped on the starter side? I have heated the starter ring gear, removed, and flipped so the good side faces the starter. If you have another trashed flywheel with a good starter ring gear you could just swap the ring gears. Maybe even buy a new ring gear as a last resort.

The tooth is totally missing. But i never noticed anything ever when starting ... the only concern is balancing...
i guess when i take it to get resurfaced i'll see what they say. i'm going to europe for 2 weeks so i'll be idle for the next 18 days.

[macka]

bring me back a sacher torte

[Smokey Eddy]

bring me back a sacher torte

if my ... very limited foreign language knowledge serves me well... is that not a chocolate cake or pastry or something?

[macka]

yessir, it is a rare treat. For some reason they never taste quite the same as they do in Europe. 

[Smokey Eddy]

I think its just going to be England & Spain. No germany. =P
My family lives in England. Maybe i'll bring back a V6 tdi with 24 valves

[macka]

then let me know how much a 1# bag of army and navy boiled sweets are and I'll paypal you the $$. Can't get em here for love nor money.