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I have removed the fly wheel to replace the ring gear. from what I understand the ring gear is heated and pressed onto the flywheel. looking at the flywheel it seems like they are one piece I can't see a seam between the gear and the flywheel. are they always 2 pieces or did they grind teeth directly into flywheel on some models. my flywheel has numbers engraved on outer edge 1469955 and a metal tag attached by 2 screws on the inside of the flywheel on the clutch side A-194. if they are always 2 pieces is there a trick to removing the old ring gear. any help appreciated thanks

Teeth on early flywheels were cast on and machined. Don't know the first Chevys with separate flywheels and ring gears. Later a replacement ring gear was available which required machining off the gear teeth to create a place for the ring gear.

If you do get a new gear, you don't need to press it on. I just did one on a 29. I made a small fire in an old truck wheel using branches. Had the gear in the coals for 20 minutes and it "fell" right on without anything besides gravity.

Maybe somebody can give you the specs to machine the flywheel to accept the gear?

When I did mine I heated the ring with an oxy-acetylene torch and it fell off with a couple taps. When putting it together I set the flywheel in a freezer over night then heated the ring again with the torch and it slipped together with no force at all needed, in fact it was too loose and I had to wait a couple minutes for the ring to contact the flywheel again. Mine still looks like one single piece. Try heating just your ring, give it couple good taps and see how it reacts. It has to be pretty hot for the ring to expand enough to separate itself. It only takes a couple minutes and it will answer your question.

Mike