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Old Aug 28, 2003 | 07:36 PM
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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?
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Old Aug 28, 2003 | 10:12 PM
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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
You MUST take it to a machine shop to have it resurfaced. :yesnod: You will not be able to get it flat at home.

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.

:seeya Jeff

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Old Aug 29, 2003 | 02:05 AM
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Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.


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Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.
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Make sure the pressure plate bolts don’t bottom out on that newly surfaced flywheel.
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Old Aug 29, 2003 | 04:41 AM
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Default 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
curious- do you have a machine shop at home? lucky.

i machined my flywheel at work on a $200k CNC grinder. i then dynamically balanced it to 5 gm-cm.
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Old Aug 29, 2003 | 08:09 AM
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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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Old Aug 29, 2003 | 09:40 AM
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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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