to quiet one of our kids, drove off the road and hit the edge of a 12h ... concrete drainage ditch. It pretzeled the wheel about 30% MORE than the one in ... the photo. In fact, it bent the wheel so much that the inside of the ... wheel caught the front brake caliper suddenly stopping ... the wheel from rotating, causing the van to come to a screeching halt. Again ... , the wheel did not come loose, nor did it ... in any other way. It simply deformed in the same way a typical, factory original ... other non-brittle wheel) would under the same conditions. I took the tire off ... the rim, sent the wheel to Bolten Classic Wheel in ... to have it straightened, mounted THE SAME TIRE back on, installed it back on ... drove on it for another 4 years! Now, there has been much hoopla with regard to the ...
local/international 805.528.7888 117 The Waterboxer Crankshaft: To counterweight ... or not to counterweight, that is the question. We have had a number of e- ... mails asking why we counter weight the cranks for our 2.3 and 2.4 liter ... engines, but not for the base 2.2 liter engine. Here is the scoop! The Waterboxer is a ... opposed, 4cylinder, 4-cycle engine just like itfs older type 1 and type 4 ... brothers, except it is water cooled instead of air cooled. If ... you look down from the top onto one of these engines while it was running, and you ... had X-ray vision, you would see the forward two pistons (#1 forward right ... and #3 forward left) and the two rearward pistons (#2 rear most ... . Itfs actually like two 2-cylinder engines joined by one crankshaft. It is kind of ...