ColinRX7

Am I reading the FSM right? heat up the ring and slide it off? That's all dandy, but is there no guides or anything to keep the ring straight?



I'm not worried too much about removal, but when I reinstall it, how the **** am I suppost to make sure it's straight and in the right position?

TheCamel

This is fun...



I used to do this with Ford ring gears on their flywheels.



Heat the ring gear with a torch to a cherry red and beat it off. Thats the easy part.



Now here is the trick to getting it on without much hassle. If you have a deep freeze freezer you put the flywheel in it overnight or at least 8hrs, put the ring gear in the oven @ 400°F for about 30 mins. Take the flywheel out of the freezer and place it flat on the table, take the ring gear out of the oven and set it in place. It will either fall right in place, or require a little bit of force with a small hammer. once it has fallen into the flywheel all you have to do is knock it down to its flush point with a brass drift. if you attempt this at ambient temperature, you will curse, swear beat and ruin the new ring gear trying to get it on.



Good luck

Cheers!

Yes, but there are two thing u need to know.



One, you cant simply use a propane torch, you need an oxyacetylene torch.



Two, when you beat the ring gear off when it red hot most likely that ring gear will be no good anymore because it would've deformed by the time it cooled back down.



If you do not have one, and are worried about two i would try to find a good used flywheel instead.



When you reinstall the ring gear you can use a two true flat edge clamped down to the flywheel, when you position the ring gear back on, it will sit flat and once the ring gear heats up to the temp of the flywheel all is well.



If you have steady hands ofcourse

1Revvin7

just get used flywheel online...

ColinRX7

Or, I bought a new lightened steel flywheel that doesn't have a ring gear on it.



My stock flywheel and ring gear are in great shape. I didn't want to buy a new ring gear so I decided to venture on and install it myself from my old flywheel. I have experience with this type of stuff from work (inserting size to size pins into trailers, heating the **** out of the trailer and having the pin in an ice bucket), but I haven't done it on something like a flywheel yet.



Thanks for the replies guys. I don't think I would warp the ring gear unless I was really really beating on it. But then again the ring gear is probably thinner/weaker steel then what I deal with at work.. Isn't there something I can do to avoid warping it?

TYSON

Ring gear in oven, flywheel in deep freeze.





And your Mom probably complains you don't know how to use the kitchen!





Even heat and even pressure if you can.

1Revvin7

Which flywheel did you get?

ColinRX7

Tweakit.net's 12lb billet steel one.

wanksta

Just go fetch your self one of those starters they used back in the '20s. With the cranks and stuff Be sweet if APC made custom hand cranks!

1Revvin7

I so knew it. I love how they sell the doubel pulley for 2x what banzai does. I wonder why this was so cheap, makes sense now. I wonder if the ACT flywheel has the ring? Its the same price....