<VV> Re: TIG WELDED STARTER RINGS
vairologist@juno.com
vairologist@juno.com
Sat, 14 Feb 2004 12:16:16 -0500
smitty says: Not that welding to cast iron can't be done but the
starter ring gears aren't. They are a much better grade of material I
believe commonly called nodular iron.
And lay off those poor folks that use those electric fuel pump
crutches. They have a right to fill their crankcases with anything they
want to just like us conventional people.
>
> A number of years ago, last time was the NC Fall Affair at Modern
> Chevy in Winston-Salem, I was seeing a vendor at shows selling
flywheels that
> had been TIG welded together, looked like a decent job, clean work,
good
> welds. I wondered about the potential problems with welding steel to
> cast iron...