Flywheel resurfacing
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Drifting
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Flywheel resurfacing
I am putting on a centerforce DF this weekend and I was wondering if you can resurface the flywheel at home or should I take it to a shop?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
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From: Zionsville, PA NRA Life Member
St. Jude '03-'04-'05-'06-'07-'08-'09-'10
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
I am putting on a centerforce DF this weekend and I was wondering if you can resurface the flywheel at home or should I take it to a shop?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
The machine shop will resurface the flywheel on a Blanchard Grinder and will be able to hold parallelism within a few .001's ( thousandths of a inch)
Some people do not like to resurface flywheels and will replace them. It depends on the amount of horsepower and RPM's.
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Melting Slicks
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Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.
[Modified by 63Banshee, 1:06 AM 8/29/2003]
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Melting Slicks
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From: WANTED: '68 rear valance with b/u light assemblies IM, e-mail, or PM me here. Thanks!
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.
Melting Slicks
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From: WANTED: '68 rear valance with b/u light assemblies IM, e-mail, or PM me here. Thanks!
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.
Melting Slicks
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From: Vancouver BC, Canada
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
I am putting on a centerforce DF this weekend and I was wondering if you can resurface the flywheel at home or should I take it to a shop?
Thanks in advance
Thanks in advance
i machined my flywheel at work on a $200k CNC grinder. i then dynamically balanced it to 5 gm-cm.
Le Mans Master
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From: Sewell NJ
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
I would have the flywheel resurfaced professionally but i would also have it balanced. I had the flywheel cut on my 74 but not balanced and it caused vibration. I eventually put a new flywheel on from Pace.
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From: Living in the Hartland
Re: Flywheel resurfacing (DGT76)
I cleaned mine with brake cleaner, lightly sanded working perp to the rotation, cleaned it again then called it good. Not the best but the cheapest solution plus I knew the eng would not stay in more than a year or two.
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