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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 |
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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.
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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.
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