{"id":11,"date":"2017-03-06T19:28:51","date_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:28:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/?p=11"},"modified":"2017-03-06T19:44:55","modified_gmt":"2017-03-06T19:44:55","slug":"installing-flywheel-ring-gear-oven-method","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/2017\/03\/06\/installing-flywheel-ring-gear-oven-method\/","title":{"rendered":"Installing Flywheel Ring Gear&#8211;Oven Method"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>See, we had to build the racecar at my house because I&#8217;m not married so I&#8217;m allowed to use the oven for car parts:<\/p>\n<figure id=\"attachment_12\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-12\" style=\"width: 225px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-03-23.53.40.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-12 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-03-23.53.40-e1488617891759-225x300.jpg\" width=\"225\" height=\"300\" srcset=\"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-03-23.53.40-e1488617891759-225x300.jpg 225w, https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/03\/2017-03-03-23.53.40-e1488617891759-768x1024.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 225px) 100vw, 225px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-12\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Baking flywheel ring gear in kitchen oven at 350 degrees<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>The trick of baking the ring gear in the oven at 350 degrees worked like a charm. \u00a0It dropped right onto the flywheel.<\/p>\n<p>I thoroughly cleaned the flywheel edge and inside of the ring gear using a green scotch-brite pad and brake cleaner before putting the gear back on. \u00a0You especially want to make sure the ring gear doesn&#8217;t have any junk on it because it will smoke\/stink up your house in the oven.<\/p>\n<p>I put the flywheel on the kitchen floor right next to the oven and on top of an old piece of wood (to protect the floor). \u00a0Once the ring was heated through (10 minutes or so) I grabbed the ring with pot holders and went from the oven directly to the flywheel within a second or two. \u00a0Piece of cake.<\/p>\n<p>I removed it using a hammer and punch&#8211;just went gently around the perimeter and it was off in a couple of minutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>See, we had to build the racecar at my house because I&#8217;m not married so I&#8217;m allowed to use the oven for car parts: The trick of baking the ring gear in the oven at 350 degrees worked like a charm. \u00a0It dropped right onto the flywheel. I thoroughly cleaned the flywheel edge and inside &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/2017\/03\/06\/installing-flywheel-ring-gear-oven-method\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Installing Flywheel Ring Gear&#8211;Oven Method&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2},"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p8vo71-b","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":35,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11\/revisions\/35"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/themadgenius.net\/racecar\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}