Greetings all,

 

I am in the process of reassembling my Renesis after reading all that I could and reviewing videos ( including Bruce's, Mazdatrix (I think) multiple on-lines also until I (and my log suffering wife) am almost sick of them. ( I have the mazda manual)

 

For some reason, after the through bolts are torqued, nobody seems to want to put the rear counterweight and nut on permanently before inverting the engine and checking and adjusting for freeplay. (it is necessary to tighten the nut there anyway for that.) Have I missed something?

 

It seems to me that when the engine is inverted, since the front eccentricshaft/ bearing is fixed with the front stationary gear and the rear one with the rear stationary gear/bearing that this would be a wonderful opportunity to place the counterweight, key and torque the nut from hell to its final.

 

Any ideas on why this is a bad idea? or is this relegated to later because most of these videos are made with manual transmission flywheels?

 

Thanks

 

Rich