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j.d.duggan said
one thing is obviously different between my flywheel and the one in post 21,my FW has the hole drilled all the way thru.Can anyone tell me the orientation of the hole with the dampener.To be clear,if the FW is drilled at a certain degree off the offset bolt holes in the crank,then it should be lined up with a certain degree on balancer.If I had this info I would not need to remove FW to determine the hole orientation.I could simply set the balancer to the proper degree to coincide with the hole.i.e. if the flywheel hole is at 6:00 the balancer is at 84* atdc,for example.do you see where I,m going with this example? :soapbox:

No, there is absolutely no relationship whatsoever, so get that out of your mind LOL. Holes in the damper are not what are used to create the damper imbalance for the cast crank. The elliptic shaped ring on the front of the cast crank damper is what does that. Any other holes on the damper are to bring the final damper assembly to proper balance if neutral balanced, or to the proper imbalance if for the cast crank. Any balancing holes in the damper can be at ANY angle around the damper.

I realize you are trying to minimize work and disassembly here. But I know of no shortcut to be 100% sure on the flywheel. And this is the type of problem that if you guess, you end up fooling yourself at least half the time. The same applies to the crank; it was not clear to me from earlier posts what crank came out and went in.

j.d.duggan said
Got the short block from a guy that I know.It was built years ago for a dodge dealership owner,he never used it and ended up trading it my buddy for some work on one of his mopars.

This says that what is inside the engine is unknown and can be anything, early or late. Did you perchance take pix of the piston tops in the short block before the heads went on? Or did you notice how many eyebrows the pistons had?