<VV> Proper technique for striking a flywheel

[Charles Cromwell]

Hello
Drop it on a cement floor. If it rattles. It's bad.
Chuck

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--- David Fasgold <dfasgold at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I've been trying to figure out the proper way to
> determine whether a  flywheel is bad, and I want to
> clarify to make sure I'm doing it right:
>   -stand it up on its side
>   -hit with a small hammer on the thinner piece of
> metal near the crank hole
>   
>   I heard a ring, but it's not what I expected. I
> was expecting it to  sound like a tuning fork, but
> what I heard was a deep, short ring (like  maybe the
> equivalent of a quarter note in length). (For the
> smart aleks  out there: I didn't an electronic tuner
> handy, so I have no idea about  the pitch.) My guess
> is that the flywheel is okay for now--it may last  a
> few years or may go bad right after it's put in. The
> car had 76K  miles when it was last tagged in 1974.
> The pressure plate and clutch  had "rebuilt"
> stickers on them, so I guess it's possible that the 
> flywheel had been replaced at that time. At any
> rate, I realize it's a  gamble.
>   
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