I finally finished with an engine rebuild on my 89 240 auto station wagon. I took lots of pics, but I was relying on my haynes to get me through this a bit too much. Now as I am about to intall the flywheel Haynes has let me down. I am looking at a flywheel that does not have offset bolt holes. It has an arrow etched into pointing outward and 2 raised peg/indicators about 2 inches apart on the outside diameter of the fly wheel. Finally there are two round plates that I am assuming go on either side of the fly wheel. Now my questions are: where should the arrows point and the little pegs inrealtion to the rear of the engine which is set at TDC, and does the thicker plate go on the inside and the thinner one last or visa versa? I was a dumb arse for not reading up on this before I removed the thing and it won't be the last, which is why I am glad for this forum. Thanks for any help!
Matt

PS would a bentley book be better for me?

This picture shows what Art writes in his post. The engine is on number 1 TDC.

Hi Matt,

The flex plate's tone ring has 58 holes where 60 could be. The spot without the holes goes where the starter goes with #1 at TDC. The thick spacer goes between crank flange and flex plate, and the thin spacer between bolt heads and flex plate with lip facing away from the flex plate. Bentley does have a drawing of this, calling the spacers "base plates". Not a bad idea to collect all the manuals you can, but this brickboard is best of all.
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Art Benstein near Baltimore

How important does a person have to be before they are considered assassinated instead of just murdered?

Here is part of the answer. On the outside lip of the flex plate (proper name) for automatic "flywheel", there is a tone ring with holes punched in it. The holes are consistent all the way around except for where there are two holes that are really close together (or a big hole). When you install the flex plate, those two close holes should roughly line up with where the starter bolts to the block. Since our 92 245 / 90 donor flex plate did NOT have an arrow on it, the presumption is that the arrow points straight up with the engine at TDC.

Once again, the critical point is NOT the arrow, but rather those two really close holes in the outer tone ring that more or less line up with the starter hole.

jorrell
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92 245 278K miles, IPD'd to the hilt, 06 XC70, 00 Eclipse custom Turbo setup...currently taking names and kicking reputations!

And to answer your second question, yes I believe (as well as alot of folks here, I'm sure) that if you're going to be doing a fair amount of maintenance to a 240 a Bentley manual is strongly recommended. It's probably the closest thing to the Volvo shop manuals. In fact the majority of the information in there is from the Volvo books. Good Luck!