You guys were right. After pulling the bearing, all of the pieces where
contained in the end of the crankshaft. So it is all cleaned up and I am
putting in the diesel style pilot bearing and doing away with the felt
washer and retaining ring.

Thanks for the help

On Thu, Aug 13, 2015 at 4:49 PM, SDF ( aka ;jim lahey' - Scott ) <
scottdaniel@turbovans.com> wrote:

> assuming this is a waterboxer ..
> is the felt seal and retaining ring for it there ?
>
> I've seen many missing.
>
>
> On 8/13/2015 10:14 AM, vw_van_fan_Mark wrote:
>
>> Exactly. No way for the pilot bearing bits to get into the engine.
>>
>> Mark
>>
>> PSD wrote:
>>
>>> I'm pretty sure the pilot bearing goes into a blind hole.  That's the
>>> way it
>>> is on most engines.  You shouldn't have any problem.
>>>
>>> -----Original Message-----
>>> From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On
>>> Behalf Of
>>> Mark Milby
>>> Sent: Thursday, August 13, 2015 3:54 PM
>>> To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
>>> Subject: Pilot bearing failure
>>>
>>> So where do all of the little roller in the pilot bearing go when it has
>>> catastrophic failure. Many of them were on the flywheel. What I am
>>> worried
>>> about is the ones that potentially went into the motor. Is that
>>> possible.
>>> It is to dark to see through the hole in the crankshaft.
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>

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