--WebTV-Mail-15647-5106
Your writing has piqued my curiosity, though I am in agreement with what
you say.
It has been a while, but my best memory is ring gear removal procedure
starts with " , , , grasp hacksaw" <G>. IOW, I know of no way to remove
the ring gear intact.
This is where I am curious. Do others here have a method for ring gear
removal which preserves the gear? This gets into heat treatment, and
the ability to heat the gear without spoiling the flywheel, if indeed
the latter is heat treated in the first place. I just do not know.
Perhaps removal has been accomplished with a very powerful press.
At this point though, Chris, I agree simply fitting a new gear makes the
most sense
Bruce Burrows
'59 MGA basket case
'60 Daimler SP 250
'61 Daimler SP 250
'73 MGB driver
My Dart website (not my cars!):
http://community-2.webtv.net/guardian45/THEDAIMLERSP250DART/
--WebTV-Mail-15647-5106
Content-Disposition: Inline
Received: from mailsorter-101-8.iap.bryant.webtv.net (209.240.198.42) by
storefull-154.iap.bryant.webtv.net with WTV-SMTP; Tue, 11 Apr 2000
04:54:22 -0700 (PDT)
Return-Path: <mgs-owner@autox.team.net>
Received: from triumph.cs.utah.edu (triumph.cs.utah.edu [155.99.188.52]) by
mailsorter-101-8.iap.bryant.webtv.net (8.8.8-wtv-f/ms.dwm.v7+dul2)
with ESMTP id EAA14255; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 04:54:21 -0700 (PDT)
Received: from localhost (daemon@localhost) by triumph.cs.utah.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1)
with SMTP id FAA04241; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:54:34 -0600 (MDT)
Received: (from majordom@localhost) by triumph.cs.utah.edu (8.9.1/8.9.1) id
FAA04145 for mgs-actors; Tue, 11 Apr 2000 05:54:12 -0600 (MDT)
Message-ID: <38F311F2.E8F99EDC@iwaynet.net>
Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 07:52:18 -0400
From: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (Win95; I)
X-Accept-Language: en
MIME-Version: 1.0
To: MGs <mgs@autox.team.net>
Subject: Re: flywheels
Sender: owner-mgs@autox.team.net
Precedence: bulk
Reply-To: Chris Kotting <ckotting@iwaynet.net>
If this is a friend of yours, tell him that he does NOT want them to
turn the ring gear around on the flywheel.
If the teeth are worn, he'd be much better off having a new ring gear
fitted (they aren't THAT expensive), and I seriously doubt that they'll
be able to get the old one off without ruining either the ring gear or
the flywheel. They'd have to heat the ring gear WAY too much to get it
off. (There's a reason that the method in the manual for removing the
ring gear is to break it.)
Maybe I'm overcautious, but it sounds like false economy and I hate
having to pull an engine twice because I tried to save a few bucks the
first time.
> Date: Tue, 11 Apr 2000 00:29:12 -0400
> From: "Michael Lupynec" <mlupynec@globalserve.net>
> Subject: flywheels
>
> here's a little more insight on flywheels from another
> uncollaborated source
>
> *****************
>
> I took the flywheel for the 1500 Midget to the machine shop today.
> Remember
> this is the flywheel I bought for $25 to replace the one that was
> pretty
> chewed up by becoming loose. I took it to the shop to have it
> resurfaced,
> but ended up having more done to it:
>
> After bead blasting the flywheel, the shop is going to turn the
> flywheel ring
> around to expose the unused side to the starter gears, resurface
> it, and
> balance the flywheel. This is going to cost me in the range of
> $60. I
> should have a real solid flywheel to reinstall in a couple of
> days.
--WebTV-Mail-15647-5106--
|