[Mgs] ring gear removal

[Max Heim]

You are suppose to heat it red hot to get it on, according to the manual.
Wouldn't it work the same way getting it off?


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Max Heim
'66 MGB GHN3L76149
If you're near Mountain View, CA,
it's the primer red one with chrome wires


on 6/27/08 4:37 AM, dave at camptownshakers.com at dave at camptownshakers.com
wrote:

> Supposed to be fairly straight forward, the shop manual and various notes
> on the internet say pretty much the same thing. I don't have a
> oxy/acetylene outfit so I've cut through as far as I can with a hacksaw
> (the shoulder of the flywheel prevents cutting all the way through).
> Dozens of mightly wacks on a big chisel with a mallet didn't seem to do
> much though. I was standing the flywheel on edge, on a piece of wood and
> hitting down. Maybe the wood was absobing too much of the force. Should I
> have placed the flywheel flat side (engine side)down and tired to split it
> that way? I've never had much luck with chisels.
> 
> Dave
> '66 MGB