<VV> Tim Hawk '66 Vair

[Frank DuVal]

I have !!

Not all the teeth, but worn down in several places.

It is harder to bend a torque converter, but the pressure plate has many 
spots where the ring gear is not supported, so dropping it there will 
bend the ring gear real easy. BTDT.

Frank DuVal

On 3/27/2012 10:23 PM, Clark Hartzel wrote:
> Tim, be aware that neither the stick shift corvair has starter teeth on the
> flywheel nor does the Powerglide.  On a stick shift the flywheel teeth are
> on a ring gear welded to the pressure plate and the Powerglide Corvair has a
> ring gear welded to the torque converter.  Dropping a pressure plate or
> torque converter bends the ring gear causing starter problems but in 50
> years of Corvair ownership I have never seen missing teeth.
> Clark Hartzel
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