Can a flywheel not be balanced?
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Can a flywheel not be balanced?
Ok guys I am picking up an s4 for a few hundred bucks today and I have driven it before. The tranny whines like hell and I will be putting a spare I have in it. The engine was recently rebuilt and since the rebuild it ran fine. After 100 miles or so it started getting this nasty vibration that was not related to the tranny or anything else. Once you rev past 1500 revs or so in neutral it starts to vibe pretty bad. He was told it was his flywheel and feels for sure like something on the back of the motor.
Any ideas?
Any ideas?
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Needs shifter bushings!
does the vibes get worse or quicker with rpm?Is the flywheel stock or aftermarket.Car s4/s5 and what it the flywheel?
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I don't think it matters if you have to match the flywheel or not between series.... I may be wrong. If it's a stock flywheel I highly doubt that it came unbalanced from the factory, and if the starter had chewed a bunch of teeth off of it, or enough to misbalance it somehow (that's a **** ton of teeth missing on one side only) you would definitely notice it when you were trying to start it... What condition are the motor mounts in? Tranny mount / crossmember? Truth be told you won't find out until you pull the tranny off and see the thing for yourself
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Do not put the S5 on the S4.
I am not sure if a factory flywheel can be rebalanced, the rear counterweight is built into the flywheel. An aftermarket flywheel could be rebalanced because you balance it to itself and bolt on the counterweight.
If you get a balanced flywheel resurfaced, it shouldn't need to be rebalanced.
If I were you I would just get another flywheel. If its an n/a it will be super cheap. If its a turbo it may be a bit more. Now's also a good time to go to a lightened flywheel!
I am not sure if a factory flywheel can be rebalanced, the rear counterweight is built into the flywheel. An aftermarket flywheel could be rebalanced because you balance it to itself and bolt on the counterweight.
If you get a balanced flywheel resurfaced, it shouldn't need to be rebalanced.
If I were you I would just get another flywheel. If its an n/a it will be super cheap. If its a turbo it may be a bit more. Now's also a good time to go to a lightened flywheel!
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i have a spare s4 motor laying around. If I can get the damn nut off i will just take it from that. i dont think this is my vibaration issue though. Despite this however the guy had it resurface and the parts of the flywheel that stick up to meet the PP were ground down a little bit. I dont know why.
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because the pain in the *** of removing it and the other I want to replace it with.
The guy said that the vibration started about 100 miles after the rebuild. He thought it was the flywheel, had it resurfaced and reinstalled and it still did it. I dont think it would be the flywheel to do all that by itself.
The guy said that the vibration started about 100 miles after the rebuild. He thought it was the flywheel, had it resurfaced and reinstalled and it still did it. I dont think it would be the flywheel to do all that by itself.
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