Fitting t160 starter ring

[baz]

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

 

[Shelby-Right]

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

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

 

[baz]

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

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!

 

[Shelby-Right]

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!

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.

 

[baz]

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.

As said
I've only done one before and that was on a car
We couldn't believe how hot it had to be to fit!
And still needed hammering on!
I wonder if it was a pattern part made too small ?
It went on in the end and it worked perfectly

 

[Matchless]

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.

 

[baz]

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.

The starter ring turned up today
I haven't measured it
It looks like it'll drop on with a small amount of heat

 

[baz]

Got a chance to fit the starter ring today
It dropped on easily with a bit of heat