Flywheel

[marco]

I got my nice friendly local garage to remove the flywheel bolt on an engine, and they seperated the flywheel too.
Is there any way of knowing the position it was fitted so that it can go back the same, or do I have to get it all balanced again?

 

[atafonso]

If it's an 8 dowel flywheel it will go only one way. If not, almost impossible to know now as VW used paint to mark the position in some engines but by now the paint disappeared long ago.
Using a stock Gen VW flywheel with a stock crank you should not have balancing problems as the tolerance was 5g from factory, which is high for any performance but adequate enough for a stocker.
Abel

 

[marco]

Thanks for the reply, they are both gen vw items, so good to know that it's not too critical, there is an oil or water pattern on both too which I'm pretty sure line up.