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5th Feb, 2008 at 05:48:23pm

hiya, jus wonderin if anyone knows wha the differences are in the thick or thin ring gear avaliable for the non verto flywheel! obviously i know one is thicker than the other*oh well*, but sods law i ordered the wrong one, im guessin for either inertia or pre engaged???

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5th Feb, 2008 at 05:52:38pm

Hi,
I don't know about thick or thin but they both have a different number of teeth on them.
Cheers,
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5th Feb, 2008 at 06:20:21pm

k thanks for that dave, just minisport lists two types for non verto and then one for verto?? what differance would the extra thickness make if i count the teeth and have the same amount??


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5th Feb, 2008 at 07:27:52pm

This may be a total "one-off" but it happened to me a couple of years ago...
PRE-Verto flywheel, clutch etc, but an early one with the wider ring gear.
Tried to fit it to an Aplus in place of the verto setup and it jammed in the transfer housing when I tried to tighten the main flywheel bolt.
My transfer housing had been factory machined to flywheel diameter but only back far enough for the narrower ring gear so the wider one fouled on the "as cast" bit behind.
I never figured out if it was the ring gear width, or the depth of my early flywheel that caused it, or a rogue housing, but I had to go round with a die grinder/carbide burr to ease the clearance out ever so slightly to let the flywheel with the wider ring gear fit.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???

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5th Feb, 2008 at 07:41:14pm

ahh maybe thats the differance then, later and earlier models?? think im just going to fit it to the fly an put it on the engine, got two chances lol! they both have the same amount of teeth and shanfer on the same side, so will give it ago, will keep you posted.

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5th Feb, 2008 at 07:49:02pm

Hi,
If the wider one is the earlier one, it's probably been replaced by the later (thinner) one.
Cheers,
Gavin :)

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