Re: Flywheel Ring Gear Removal A, B or BN

Posted by ScottyNY on February 14, 2002 at 19:16:20 from (128.59.58.152):

In Reply to: Flywheel Ring Gear Removal A, B or BN posted by RAY a on February 14, 2002 at 18:17:29:

Amazing, ain't it, how it looks like a piece of the flywheel but it really does come off? I don't weld so I have to rely on small bottle torches. In my limited experience, propane isn't quite hot enough, but mapp gas works just fine. I raise the flywheel up with the ring gear on the lower half (so as to help keep the heat away from the center of the flywheel where the gear bites) and just start heating around the ring gear. Probably won't get it hot enough to just fall off, but it will tap off pretty easily with just an oak dowel. Before you start this, I'd suggest you dispatch the Mrs. off to the county seat with instructions to buy a tube of relative bearing grease. You should probably give her a list of several stores. Take advantage of her prolonged absence to preheat the oven to 500 degrees, where you will place the gear to get it really good and hot. (Before putting it in, you might want to use a solvent or even detergent, to get any grease, oil and whatnot off of the gear so as not to make the next batch of biscuits taste funny.) Leave the gear in there long enough for it to heat up to the whole 500 and just slip it on. There'll be so much slack it'll go on easily and even hula-hoop around a little bit, but will tighten right up as it cools. An easy, dare I say fun, and satisfying little project. And don't forget to turn the oven off! Scotty

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