David -
Think twice about having then turn the ring gear around. They might
have to heat that bad boy up an awful lot to get it free of the
flywheel, in which case it will have lost it's temper. This will likely
cause you to lose yours later on.
I'd just have them fit a new ring gear and be done with it. I figure
that there's a reason why the procedure in the manual for removing the
ring gear on the 1500 is to break it.
Just a thought...
Chris Kotting
ckotting@iwaynet.net
DLancer7676@cs.com wrote:
>
> 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.
>
> After flywheel bolt discussions with Mark Childers and Paul Asgeirsson on
> here, and asking about specific bolts recommended by these guys, I got a lot
> of blank responses locally. Its like the good old boys just strap 'er on
> with any old #8 bolt that fits the threads. Lacking anything else, I have 4
> used bolts that look pretty good--I have run a die over them to clean them
> up.
>
> Hopefully I will have her running by the weekend. I will update the list
> about the progress. Thanks so much to all who have sent ideas--I read and
> considered every one of them.
>
> --David C.
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