[Fot] Ring gear

[greg]

Charly,
   The chamfered teeth face the direction the starter gear comes from. 
On older cars that used the inertia bendix, the chamfer faced the rear. 
I know this because I have an old Mueller flywheel that I had to hand 
chamfer the teeth on the front side for a modern starter. If you don't 
have the chamfer facing the starter, the gear teeth sometimes hit the 
ring gear teeth and won't engage.
Greg Lund

Charly Mitchel wrote:
> Hey Friends,
> I took a lightweight flywheel to be fitted with a new ring gear to the machine
> shop today and the machinist asked me which way it went on.  I didn't know
> what to tell him.
> This is an early (long snout crankshaft) TR6 flywheel and the ring gear has a
> chamfer on one side.  If we use the chamfer to assist guiding the gear to the
> FW, the chamfered gear teeth face the transmission.  This seems opposite of
> what should be to me.  I see most older ring gear are set this way, but does a
> new installation with a modern starter go like this or with the chamfered
> teeth edge towards the motor?
> Charly Mitchel
> TR6 #44
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