Waterboxer is different as the reverse gear is not there. Very important
note when re-assembling. Do not make the shaft tight together before pushing
the coupling down. Back off at least one spline so that the shaft can wobble
slightly in the coupling. Failure to leave some slack will result in that
stud breaking at a minimum.

Those longer pilot bearings with the seal eliminates the need for the felt
washer. If using this on a water boxer or air cooled you have to make sure
the full length of the bearing will fit in the crankshaft bore. Otherwise
the flywheel will crush it unless you bore the flywheel out to accept it.
You can also drill out the step in the crankshaft. Often, when a pilot
bearing fails the ring that holds the felt washer in place gets wiped out.
As that part is not readily available, the longer pilot bearing is a good
fix and an upgrade.

Dennis

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
neil n
Sent: Monday, March 29, 2010 1:20 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Input Shaft Removal etc PICS

On Sun, Mar 28, 2010 at 9:52 PM, neil n <musomuso@gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi all.
>
> As promised.
>
> http://picasaweb.google.com/musomuso/InputShaftRRDKAirCooledTransmission#
>

Note. This shows the DK (air cooled. Same as diesel IIRC)

May also shed light for WBX transmission input shaft.

Neil.

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