Fitting t160 starter ring

baz said:

Has anyone fitted a t160 starter ring to a clutch basket?
I'm interested in how much heat?
Clutch Basket in the freezer?
Just heat and drop on?
Cheers

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Shelby-Right said:

Hi, what you need to do is make 6 shinny areas around ring gear, oxy acet is better, you may do it with butane ? , it's obviously smaller than a car ring gear, go around and around with the heat, you will see the shiny areas changing colour's straw to blue-ish is ok, I haven't done a T160 ring gear, so that is the car method, I wouldn't bother with cooling the inner, set it up so that you can seat it with a 10mm punch if required, wear some leather welding gloves and drop it on. Cheers

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baz said:

I have only ever done one in the past and that was on an old ford car
We had the ring gear glowing red before it'd fit
And then we had to hammer it on!!!!!
I don't want to be doing that with this setup!

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Shelby-Right said:

Should never have to be that hot, they have about a thou per inch of diameter, like a 157 sbf would have approx 20 thou.

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Matchless said:

I fitted one a couple of months ago. Heated the ring gear to about 130/140c which gave around 0.005" expansion, meaning the ring dropped on easily. Measure what you've got & take it from there.

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