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that lets you see the flywheel. At TDC, the funky edge thing on the
hole lines up with a stamped "0" on the flywheel. Usually at some
point, when we can, we mark it with a bright paint pen or some such to
make it easy to see. But, it is there, roughly six degrees behind the
six degree advance mark.

it might be hidden by crud, but clean the area and you will find it.

> But now on to my real problems... I decided to swap the cam while I was in there and just my luck, I dropped one
> of the bearing cap nuts into the oil return passage on the head. I'm hoping that just goes straight down to the oil
> pan... at least that's what it sounded like it fell into. Draining the oil didn't help, so I unbolted the oil pan, but I
> can't get the oil pan off for some reason. I have one of those windage trays installed on there, and the tray along
> with the lower oil pan gasket is stuck pretty good onto the oil pan even though I didn't use any RTV. Could that be
> preventing me from taking out the oil pan, or is it something other than the windage tray?

Do you have all the bolts out? A couple are hard to get to, and require
lining up the flywheel (darn it, there it is again!) to get to them
through slots that are machined into it.

If all fasteners are out, parts that seem "stuck together" can be pried
apart carefully. Clean well before re-using.

--
Huw Powell

(http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi) http://www.humanspeakers.com/audi

(http://www.humanthoughts.org/) http://www.humanthoughts.org/

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