Something I need to say

[jlaird]

I know why this place is so nice. I am with friends. Thanks all for that.

Oh yea Brissleflex door seals arrived today, first show in two weeks so all is well.

 

[bgbassplyr]

One problem with this forum is that I never get my questions answered. Here, I'll try again:

1. Did I get a good deal?

Ans: If you're happy, I'm happy.

2. What oil should I use.

Ans: Whatever is on sale.

3. How can I add about 50 hp for less than $50.

Ans: Find a long steep hill.....(check the brakes first).... and let'er rip.

 

[DrEntropy]

I Definitely would not use the cutting torch to cut off the old one. I used an air cut off wheel and then as Scott said hit it with a chisel. <reverent snippage>

I'll "third" the "notch-and-chisel" method. Introduce a stress riser between two teeth, whack it wif a cold chisel and it'll split and come off. Unevenly heating an alloy flywheel is NOT on the "best practices" list of methods. :wink:

'sides: the alloy likely has a higher coefficient of expansion than the ring gear... it'd be like trying to push a cooked noodle up a hill... unhelpful to the desired result.

 

[Hap Waldrop]

I replace alot of MG ring gears, and here's what I do, I got a big vice that that I can put the flywheel in, then I use a big hammer and a round piece of steel stock, about 1/2" in diameter, I just drive the old ring gear off, they are not terribly hard to get off this way, and you don't have cut or heat anything. Whe go back to put the new ring gear on, I get a couple of sets vice grip to use as handles and attach them on the other edges where they will not interfere with installment, I then heat the the new ring gear with a torch until I get it to the point it falls on the flywheel, they cool down quickly so work quick, I done maybe 20 or so ring gears like this and saw many more over the years installed this way at machines shops, if you have torch it's fairly easy job to do.

As for the aluminum flywheel deal, I ran them for decades on both street and race cars, I see no issue with them on street cars, I never gotten any of the idle issues you hear some speak of or noticed them be terribly hard to get off the line with, and know people who have been running the same aluminum flywheel for a 20 year stretch on both street and race applications. FWIW, I putting a new Fidanza aluminum flywheel on my new persoanl MGB engine, if I thought for skinny minute it would be a issue, I wouldn't do it.

 

[DrEntropy]

First time we did a ring gear, I was 19 (forty years passes kinda quick, on reflection :wink: ). Me Ol' Fella was part of a steel manufacturing company's materials testing lab... he put the ring gear in me Mum's oven at 450+ for about an hour, after the flywheel had been sitting on a concrete slab outdoors in February in western PA, overnight. Two pair of heavy tongs and a bit of a rush to get the ring to the wheel, but it fairly SLIPPED over the edge and needed only a couple whacks with a brass drift and a BFH to set it home. The sound it made when it was well-and-truly "bottomed out" was also a "ring". :wink:

I've used about the same method ever since. Sometimes had an oven handy, sometimes a torch. It's the expansion of the ring, contraction of the wheel making the fit easier/harder. Ambient room temp for the wheel makes for a bit more struggle but works fine with a good brass drift & BFH as final persuasion devices.

Never thought about 'dry ice' packing 'til now but I'd bet that'd work too. :laugh:

 

[fairmounter]

I remember using a toaster oven to put ring gear on my Karmann Ghia engine in high school.

 

[JodyFKerr]

This sort of stuff bleeds over into real life too. Recently I've been trying to buy a truck as it's just not efficient doing home depot runs in a LBC.

Now, i've gone visiting folks to look at British cars for years. Never once have I ever feared for my safety. More often than not I wind up making new friends in the process. In the space of a month of looking at used trucks I'm ready to go to a dealership. I swear at one stop I was worried that if I stayed any longer I would have wound up a witness to a gunfight.

One of the main reasons I seem to continually wind up with new LBC projects instead of any other type of car is the people I come into contact with.

 

[HAN8L1965]

I put the fly wheel in the freezer and the ring in a 450+ oven, for those of us without torches etc. It is truly amazing to watch. Lay the wheel down and trop the ring on with some heat resistant gloves and presto just like the video.

I love this place

Mark

 

[jlaird]

being the lazy sort I took it to my engine guy and he poped it on overnite. easy and clean that way. Has to hsve the flywheel refinished as well.

 

[Guest]

I couldn't agree more to all that has been said. The only thing that I might add to this is that I have discovered that there is no medium more open to mis-interpretation than email (and by extension) posting on boards. I find myself in situations regularly where we have to decide not to use email because there is too much nuance in facial expressions and tone of voice that is lost when we start to type. I recall a colleague who as a student was forbidden to use email because EVERYTHING she emailed pi**ed people off.

Really??? Imagine that!



.....must be my sister.....

 

[Guest]

Those back country boys kinda scare me though

Y'aint got nuthin ta worry 'bout.......lessen you taste like chikin. :cowboy:

 

[davester]

3. How can I add about 50 hp for less than $50.

Ans: Find a long steep hill.....(check the brakes first).... and let'er rip.

I tried that, but driving up that hill makes it seem as though I have 50hp less!

 

[hooey]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ik--dWSKGvs