- Clean the flywheel in solvent.
Caution: Wear safety glasses in order to avoid eye damage.
- Dry the flywheel with compressed air.
- Inspect the manual transmission flywheel
for the following:
• | Damaged ring gear teeth. |
• | Loose or improperly positioned ring gear. |
• | The ring gear has an interference fit onto the flywheel and should be
positioned completely against the flange of the flywheel. |
• | A scored, grooved or damaged friction surface |
- Inspect the automatic transmission flywheel
for the following:
• | Damaged ring gear teeth |
• | Stress cracks around the flywheel-to-crankshaft bolt hole locations. |
| Important: Do not attempt to repair the welded areas that retain the ring gear
to the flywheel plate. Install a new flywheel.
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• | Welded areas that retain the ring gear onto the flywheel for cracking. |