Use a gas grill with several burners and a hinged lid to heat the ring gear. It works a lot better than using a torch.
Watch this you tube video of wagon wheel builders sometime- - - -they build a fire around the iron tire and burn it down to coals, then drop it over the wooden wheel and use buckets of water and a garden hose to shrink it! Skip to about the 22 minute mark to see the tire installation.
Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
