Casting Numbers REPUBLIC B140 Flywheel cover
 

Just acquired a new (Sorta) Flywheel cover with these numbers and no visible cracks. It's rusty as hell and requires a lot of wire brushing. Who is/was REPUBLIC? Was Ford using this name for some reason ? Or was Ford subbing out some of the casting work?
Also, should I pay someone with a Blanchard or a Blanchard type grinder to kiss off the mating surfaces ? As I said, this thing is is rusty as hell and the mating, surfaces are are distorted. And parallelism ????????. How much can you take off a F W. cover safely ? Thanks in advance!
Terry

Re: Casting Numbers REPUBLIC B140 Flywheel cover
 

Consider getting it blasted and be sure there are no cracks, especially around bolt holes for back of block. Be too bad to machine up a cracked housing, and they are prone to being cracked.

Re: Casting Numbers REPUBLIC B140 Flywheel cover
 

Yup. I have three flywheel housings and the two that are presently off of cars are both cracked at the mounting holes. I don’t know about the one currently on the car. I do need two good ones for the two cars so I keep looking. In the meantime, the two bad ones make good practice for stamping numbers in engine blocks.

Re: Casting Numbers REPUBLIC B140 Flywheel cover
 

Synder’s have in their online catalog a cast iron and aluminum flywheel housing 525 $ for either one. Most original housing are cracked, the latter ones are better as they have been beefed up as the new housing