Scott,
     Machine shops will resurface as little as
possible.   Mechanics tend to do work so they only do
it once.   I would choose to always resurface and
check out the pilot bearing if you have over 80k since
the last clutch job.      It is a pain to redo a bad
clutch job.   Call it a matter of cost-risk.   gary
From:    Scott Daniel - Shazam
<scottdaniel@TURBOVANS.COM>
Subject: Re: Clutch shutter, vibration, shaking -

  I'm not precisely sure what the poster is saying
here. If he's saying
 to
always surface the flywheel every clutch job....I'd
like to offer that
that's not always best. Like resurface them when they
really need it,
 sure.
But not just automatically every clutch job.  Machine
shops can even
 screw
up a resurfacing job.  So if it's good, and not really
needing a
resurfacing, clean it up, give it a good psychic
healing, and put it
 back
into service.
 I've taken many parts to machine shops for
inspection......in general
 it
seems to me they are usually very inclined, like
doctors with drugs and
surgery, to recommend their machine work services be
done to the part,
 but
if the surface is nice, and the run-out within
spec.....I'd leave it
un-resurfaced.  So 'it depends.'
Scott
www.turbovans.com

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List
[mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf
 Of
gary hradek
Sent: Thursday, November 08, 2007 7:59 PM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Clutch shutter, vibation, shaking -

Walter,
       anyone doing a clutch job would do this that
does it on a regular basis.   Would not pay off to do
otherwise.
Date:    Thu, 8 Nov 2007 18:48:33 -0500
From:    Walter Houle <whoule@ECSCONTROLS.COM>
Subject: Re: Clutch shutter, vibation, shaking - why?

I always assumed that VW resurfaced the flywheel as
part of their
 factory
rebuild process. Does anyone know if they did?

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