Subaru flywheel: Use or replace?

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Subaru flywheel: Use or replace?

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It looks like this:

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Would you be happy putting that back in a vehicle?
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We get away with flywheels like this all the time on mail vans, but its always a difficult call on your own vehicle.

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I would replace it or get it skimmed at a local rebuilders/engineering shop or is that not economical.
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They only look to be minor surface cracks, it would not worry me at all and i have seen alot of flywheels.

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i would use it! for two reasons, one i already have it so i don't have to pay for it and two i have no idea what it is/does so couldn't possibly know if it is a good one or not!! :lol:

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I'm going with Andy and Dave's recommendations.... well the first bit of what Dave's posted anyway....
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if you want to replace at any time just let me know (i have loads of them)i can pass on to someone and get it across country via the vw network i should imagine :D

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Needs surface grinding, to get it back to flatness... else it might slip :P

a lathe tool wouldn't even graze it I doubt.

Oh, I hear that it slips a bit... :wink:
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I might have to take Scoobyvan up on his generous offer..... we'll see whether the clutch beds in in the next week.....
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