On a manual transmission flywheel, if the teeth are bad, you don’t have to replace the whole flywheel. The ring gear can be replaced by itself for a lot less…
On a manual transmission flywheel, if the teeth are bad, you don’t have to replace the whole flywheel. The ring gear can be replaced by itself for a lot less…
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do ya really think taking off 0.010 is going to require a shim ?
NOT !
BTW with about 5 good hits with that hammer & chisel ‘ Wear eye protection
‘ that ring gear would have popped right off .
There’s also other ways to get the ring off with just home hand tools .
What a waste of Oxygen & gas , OX about $29.00 Acetylene about $55.00 per
cylinder .
2 install I hold the gear with a pair of Vice Grips while I heat it & ‘
sometimes ‘ you can just flip a ring gear & save some $$$$$ .
Don’t have a torch you say ?
I have done them on a turkey frier burner & if you had to it can be done on
a cooking stove .
but you better get your wife’s permission .
Got a impossible to find or real expensive ring gear ?
Weld it up ‘ properly ‘and work it with a die grinder or hand files & a
dremel if that’s all you got .
FYI , pressed piston pins can be installed with the same technique if you
do not have access to a qualified machine shop .
& no it does not hurt the rod or piston if done properly .
But you better be QUICK because they ‘ pins ‘ will stick faster than a
speeding truck when you’re trying to cross a 4 lane freeway on crutches .
I don’t see why you’d need the shim between the flywheel and crank. You
took material off the clutch surface of the flywheel, but the pressure
plate bolts to the same surface. So even if you took a good amount of
material off, the pressure plate would end up moving towards the engine
along with the clutch disk. The only thing that would possibly need
adjusting is the clutch linkages since the pedal would have to move a
little farther for the throwout bearing to contact the pressure plate. A
shim between the flywheel and crank wouldn’t affect the distance between
the clutch disk and flywheel anyway, since the pressure plate is bolted
directly to the flywheel.
@spelunkerd The flywheel’s just a thin piece of metal with a non-removable
ring gear that bolts to the torque converter with a couple of bolts.
How does this look on an automatic transmission?
This is the real world.
@boaterbil Material has been removed from the flywheels friction surface.
This will cause the pressure plate to push on the clutch plate a further
distance when the clutch is engaged reducing pressure plate spring tension
and potentially clutch grab. The spacer brings the flywheel forward so the
distance even with the removed material is back where it was prior to
machining. Sorry about the multiple removals my Internet connections hit or
miss right now.
what about flipping it. it cost $350 for just ring gear on my bobcat
Legit
cool
Nice work guys.
What do you suppose was the cause of the damage on the original ring gear?
Was it a bad starter or was it driver error for starting a vehicle that’s
already running?
Excellent job ! Very informative for us DIY guys.. Keep up the good work
!!! .
Ive just had my flywheel machined and i dont believe they have used a shim
to push it forward, its making a ticking noise from the flywheel now. Would
anyone know if that would be the cause of the ticking?
hi, I dont under stand why machining the flywheel will make the distance
from the disc to the flywheel too short. Movine the disc too far towards
the end of input shaft of trans, ???
That’s very cool.I’ve never seen anyone do that befor.Great job and thanks
for sharing it with everyone.
Thank you. Why cant i just clean up teeth with angle ginder and turn ring
gear over. Chamfer on my ring gear is big enough on both sides to sit down
flat. Also why the shim, surely if clutch is bolted to flywheel the whole
assembly just moves back .020″.I have a hydraulic system and i can adjust
push rod from slave cylinder to compensate the difference.
Nice one Dwayne! I see you used a cutting attachment. What number cutting
tip was that? I take it the decision for a cutting attachment is that a
rosebud wouldn’t be concentrated enough and would heat the flywheel
excessively while a welding nozzle wouldn’t heat a large enough area?
Thanks a bunch guys! I’m about to change the ring gear and starter in an
old Timberjack cable skidder with an old Continental engine on it. wasn’t
quite sure what I was getting into as it will be my first attempt at
changing a ring gear. I feel confident with attempting it now. Thanks again
guys! Keep up the great videos!
Heating the ring gear makes the teeths softer. How is this afecting the
harding of the teeths? Don’t they last less?
I dont have axcess to a torch, how hot are you heating the gear? could the
temp be reached in a home oven?
On the install you can also put the fly wheel in the freezer for about an
hour if you don’t have a oxy/ace torch. Then a LP torch should work. As
always great vide!!!! thumbs up!!!
Absolutely, very nicely Done !!!
Great video i never knew how to replace ring gear until i watched your
video.Thanks for the good stuff Duane.
no because its a whole different flywheel
Great video, just the info I needed!
Another professionally informative video, thanks for everything you do. I’m
just a household DIY’er and I enjoy watching your videos.
I didn’t have a cutting torch to heat up the ring gear so I put it on the
bar-b-que for about 10-15 minutes. Worked great! I’m sure a cooking stove
would work too. The BBQ was at about 450 degrees when I pulled it off.
@RegniA Short answer is ring gears are installed on factory flywheels in a
similar way – heated and layed/pressed on) – so this method is not much
different although a bit slower to do.
You can also drill a hole through the ring gear and chisel it off on some
vehicles
Anywhere between 500 and 700F is hot enough
I heard of another way of putting on by putting the fly wheel in dry ice to
shrink it, that way the ring gear would slide on would that work as well?
anybody try that method before? thanks for the video, never thought of the
shim i better look into that. got to get my 50 ford back on the road!
if you turn the oxygen and gas down youll go through less gas, theres
nothing wrong with having high you just go through gas quicker than you
need to
excellent vid. i cringed a little that you weren’t wearing heat proof
golves.
Can you do this with an automatic transmission?