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.
|