One of our guys had his TR4 clutch explode at the end of the straight at
Winton in Vic . Cut the bell housing in half and dumped the fragments in the
passenger footwell . No shield just the cardboard tranny cover. Very lucky
guy. Our regs in Aus do not require a scatter shield for historics
Geoff Byrne
TR6 down under
----- Original Message -----
From: "Bill Babcock" <BillB@bnj.com>
To: <Cofrog@aol.com>; <FOT@autox.team.net>
Sent: Thursday, July 05, 2007 7:38 AM
Subject: Re: [Fot] Scatter Shields
> What I have is a steel plate in the area next to the flywheel. What I'd
like
> is a oil and grease resistant kevlar blanket for the entire transmission.
But
> I'm ok with just the plate and a limited imagination.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: fot-bounces@autox.team.net on behalf of Cofrog@aol.com
> Sent: Wed 7/4/2007 9:41 AM
> To: FOT@Autox.Team.Net
> Subject: [Fot] Scatter Shields
>
> Earlier this year RMVR had an incident with a flywheel exploding on an
MGB.
> I had given thought to this danger but had kind of dismissed it. In
looking
> over the archives, there was some activity regarding scatter shields in
2000
> but it seems to have dead ended.
>
> What are you folks using for scatter shields and their source. I see
Uncle
> Jack has (had) a metal "U" shaped shield that fits around the
transmission
> cover inside the car. Others feel that the shield needs to wrap around
the
> whole bell housing. Thoughts?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Dan Forgey
>
>
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