You know when your
lowrider is really low when your flywheel starts to lose
teeth!
If you had a
manual, it would be easy to roll the car in gear and spin the engine a
bit. With an auto, I'm not sure you can do much to move the engine once it
is off. You could carry a long handled wrench with a socket for the crank
snout (assuming your engine is newer and has the bolt) bolt so you can turn it
when you need to...
Either way, you
need a new flywheel big time. It may only be a few teeth, but the whole
balance of the engine will be off. The flywheel is bolted to your crank,
and now there is a slight imbalance of the flywheel. Drive for a while at
the right resonant RPM and you could cause nasty damage. I expect actual
chances of breaking your crank are close to zero, but I would want to get a new
flywheel as soon as possible.
When you replace
the flywheel, see if you can guess why this happened. Did you engage the
starter while the car was running, or is the starter misadjusted? You
don't want to have this happen to your replacement!
Brad Waller ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) '66 Corvette | 327/dead | 4-speed | Wilwood Brakes | 245/45/16
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