gwstang

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I'm letting the ring gear bake in the oven at 550 deg.got the flywheel in the deep freeze on the back porch. Hope I get this done and the smell out of here before you know who gets back. Yikes! :shock: Red head ain't a gonna like these goings on in her "nice" oven... :( Dang it, she's got a nose on her like a darn blood hound and can tell when I've been up to shenanigans! I'f I'm not on here later...watch the next Dateline or 48 Hours show as I will probably be featured on one of those as MIA
 
My wife learned a long time ago that it is my house as much as hers so I do what I want/need to when I have the need to do so. Plus it is my kitchen not hers I do 99% of all the cooking
 
LOL, I do have an old stove that I hope to find some place in my shop to put it so I can use it to heat up stuff for welding etc. Just have not gotten around to cleaning up enough to the shop to get it in there yet
 
(quoted from post at 22:58:22 01/29/15) I'm letting the ring gear bake in the oven at 550 deg.got the flywheel in the deep freeze on the back porch. Hope I get this done and the smell out of here before you know who gets back. Yikes! :shock: Red head ain't a gonna like these goings on in her "nice" oven... :( Dang it, she's got a nose on her like a darn blood hound and can tell when I've been up to shenanigans! I'f I'm not on here later...watch the next Dateline or 48 Hours show as I will probably be featured on one of those as MIA

Suggest you practice "Bribery with Ingetrity" . Have some flowers for Momma, supper on the table and chocolate handy. Works for me ( well at least most of the time)
 

After 38 years of putting with my hot rods, toys etc....she knows all the tricks by now. Flowers means I did something with something of "hers" that I should not have used like that. Chocolate means I am "about" to do something with something of hers that I should not use like that (think using one of her Good Large Wooden spoons to dip out some bondo for mixing). Suppers a hit n miss item...lol :roll: I usually just distract her with "Oh look dear, Antique Road Show is on", she loves to watch that! By then she is over the red head tirade that was building. Females are just too hormone driven. Some kind of "faulty" wiring they have or sumethin'...yeah sumethin' :wink: Oh he**, who am I kidding, I don't even hear what she says much anymore...lo. Just like a hen clucking. Brrraaaaccckk braaacccckk brraaaaccckk. cluck cluck cluck. :)
 
Let us know how that went for you. I tried exactly that (on my 8N), and ended up having to get the ring red hot with an Oxy-Acetylene torch.
Then it slipped right on.
 

It didn't work. Would not get it hot enough and I let it bake for an hour. I'll bring it to work next week. We have a guy that does some welding and bug him into doing it. Red Head did not suspect a thing....whew! :wink:
 

That a great stand-up routine! :p

I used Oxy/Acet on one once too.
An installation point that even ranks in importance over heat is that you are tapping it on as perfectly squarely as possible and in the smallest of increments, especially at the start.
 
I have never done one on an N but did one on a Ferguson a few years back and it would have fallen off the back side if I had not had it laying on a piece of steal. I did freeze the flywheel over night so it got very cold since the freezer is set at below zero. I laid the ring gear in the over and turn it on to max heat and waited til it had got all the way up to heat and then some. Thing slipped on so easy I was afraid to move it till all was cold
 

I never believed anyone that said they did a shake and bake and made it slip on they are full of it...... It has to get in the 800/900 range and then have to be hammered on... I would take it to someone who has BTDT its a die'N bread its sum'N you don't do much any more...

I posted a how to one time buts its lost... When its at the right temp it turns blue and you will see it start to speckle/flake gray... If its worth losing a days work and a ring gear play as you may...
 
Notin like doing 99% of the cooking to show that gal where things stand and tell her if shes not careful you will take her last 10% of dish washing and house cleaning away too. You Ozark boys are a force to be reckoned with. (o-) wink.
 
Ah but that is the nice thing She does KP as in cleaning thing up after I make the mess
 
I did a few replacements a good number of years ago using a 'real' hot wrench. If I remember took 5-10 minutes with that wrench going round and round ring gear to have it hot enough to go on smoothly and correctly.
 
I've replaced a few flywheel rings[old cheap way was
to turn them over]by simply sitting the ring in
place,heating around and around. When it begins to
move,I got slip pliers,and gently nudged it into
place until flush. The tricky part when reusing the
ring was removing it in one piece.
 
I did it with a torch and it fell on really easy. There are some videos on you tyube that show the whole procedure. Never tried to get one off in one piece.
 
I have replaced a few ring gears on Minn. Moline "U" tractors using my propane/oxy torch.
It takes some time to heat up the gear but have had them just drop off of the flywheel.Same for going on , just takes time. Good luck.
 

Reckon a hand held propane torch would get it hot enough? If not, I'll get someone to do it that has the red bud torch.
 

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