[Healeys] Ring gear not fully seated in flywheel

[Chris Dimmock]

Kees,
I think, at least in Australia, 250 degrees Celcius "is" the definition of "heating the shit out of" the ring gear. That's close to the highest temperature in my wife's kitchen oven. 
Have you ever seen a ring gear with shit on it at over 250 degrees Celcius when all you have is an oxy torch and your wife is at home??? 
If there is no shit on it - clearly - you've heated the shit out of it. 
I'll defer to the more scientific men out there, I'm just sayin you heat the shit out of the ring gear. 
No shit. Your choice. Oven or oxy?
Maybe, I should have just said if it's red hot, then then it's ok. 
Oh. And that's hotter than when you boil a wheel bearing for like a 1975 Corolla rear axle. Never boil diff oil in your mothers best saucepan at a temperature even close to boiling the shit out of it. Because you can, but you don't want to. 
I tried that when I was 19. The smell  was still there. In the kitchen. And the rest of the house. And mum threw away that saucepan. 
Smelt like shit. 
I'm 4 months into my 2nd marriage Kees. And I just bought my wonderful new wife a new stove. 
So for at least now, I'll use the oxy. You do 250 degrees Celcius. I'll do "heat the shit out with an oxy."
Either way, don't ever boil gear oil. 
That's heating the shit out of it. 
And that smell has to go somewhere....

;-)
Chris


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> On 19 Jan 2015, at 11:20 pm, Oudesluys <coudesluijs at chello.nl> wrote:
> 
> There is no need to heat the shit out       of the ring.
> Putting the flywheel in the freezer for 4 or 5 hrs and the ring gear in the oven at 250 degr. C for 1hr when the Missus is out for the day is good enough.
> Kees Oudesluijs
> 
> 
> Chris Dimmock schreef op 19-1-2015 om 12:53:
>> The "interference fit" method I've seen and experienced is...
>> 1. Apply a shitload of heat on a ring gear, (preferably with at least 2 blokes dressed like blacksmiths), with strong steel tongs to lift a ring gear that could burn a hole through your garage floor...
>> 2. Which is then dropped/ slipped  carefully over...
>> 3. a near frozen flywheel...
>> 4. lightly tap the ring gear into a square position on the flywheel.