[Healeys] Ring gear not fully seated in flywheel

[Earl Kagna]

Richard:

Yup – had that happen years ago to a friend’s 2 - seat tri-carb. Managed to bang it on sufficiently through the starter access hole in the rear plate in order to move the car .  Installed a new ring gear to the same flywheel as soon as we could – the car ran for many years after that with no further problems.

Man – was it noisy!

Earl Kagna
Victoria, B.C.
BJ8, BT7 tri-carb

From: richard mayor 
Sent: Sunday, January 18, 2015 4:45 PM
To: healeys 
Subject: [Healeys] Ring gear not fully seated in flywheel

Has anyone ever seen or heard of a 6 cylinder Healey flywheel ring gear  that was not fully seated onto the flywheel. I discovered just such a situation with a flywheel from a motor that had little over 5,000 miles on it. There is a bit more than 1/8th inch gap. The ring gear was rubbing on the top 2 rear engine plate mounting bolts. It was definitely a noise maker.  I suspect that is why the engine came out of the car at such low mileage.

Richard Mayor

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