<VV> Re: TIG WELDED STARTER RINGS

[vairologist@juno.com]

 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...