When it comes down to it, I don't feel very confident that we found the correct TDC mark on the flywheel before we locked it. Tonight I'm going to take it all back apart and again try to find it. So, does anyone have any tips to help identify the... I used a sharpe to draw a mark on the flywheel so that we'd know once we'd made a full rotation. I'm having some pretty serious difficulty identifying the stamp mark on the flywheel that indicates top dead center. However, once I started advancing at the crankshaft (to which the camshaft was now linked via the new timing belt), before I even made it a quarter of the way through one cycle, I again felt that same resistance I had earlier. As I progressed, if I felt resistance, I would un-advance slightly at the crankshaft and then advance the camshaft one iteration. Except this time I couldn't advance the camshaft because the belt was on. So I figured I obviously did something wrong here, unless the resistance I'm feeling is compression, but I wouldn't think it would feel that solid. In the tutorial, the notch looks quite prominent, and looks like it's depth makes it visible on the chamfered edge as well as the top flat portion. So yesterday I recieved my timing tools in the mail from Metalnerd and I set to work on doing the timing belt in my 2000 Golf. So in the end we went with what we thought looked "the most" like the TDC mark, locked the camshaft, crankshaft, and injection pump, and followed the tutorial for installation.
The clutch was recently replaced in my Audi, and I went with a genuine Clutchmasters FX400, a Fidanza aluminium flywheel P/N 112621, Sachs pilot bushing and slave cylinder, the shop said installation went smoothly with all of it, but now the car...
Williams Hybrid Power , a subsidiary of Williams F1, believes it has overcome this hurdle by developing a flywheel that is much lighter – about 50kg – than previous flywheels built for buses, but which rotates at speeds as fast as 40,000 rpm. Williams F1 , which was founded by Sir Frank Williams in 1977 and has been home to champion drivers such as Damon Hill and Nigel Mansell, first developed its flywheel for use in the 2009 Formula 1 season, but it was abandoned before it could be... A fuel-saving flywheel first developed for use in Formula One racing cars, but abandoned before it could be used due to a regulation change by the sport’s administrators, will soon be retrofitted to a handful of London buses. Six prototype buses owned by Go-Ahead , one of the UK’s largest buses operators, are currently being fitted with the flywheels for a trial beginning later this year in and around Putney, south-west London. Audi aims to use a flywheel in its R18 e-tron Quattro at the Le Mans 24-hour race later this year. If the payback can be shown to be under five years, we might even retrofit flywheels on buses that are already 10 years old. Williams F1, the Oxfordshire-based racing team behind the technology, predicts that its carbon-composite flywheel could help a city bus reduce its fuel use by as much as 30%.
