Good news is I got my original core flywheel back from the shop....they couldnt' get one until Monday and I'm tired of waiting on them and driving back and forth to BFE. Bought a new ring gear and having local parts store press new gear on, machine flywheel surface, and press pilot bearing in and out.
Bad news is when I went to pick it up, they machined a 0.006" step into the clutch surface....making the pressure plate sit up 0.006" higher than the disc clamping surface. I thought these flywheels are supposed to be flat....which when he looked it up, it shows them all as flat. He says some early ones had the step and mine did, so he machined it that way. The new made in China flywheel I looked at earlier today was flat. Which way should it be, flat or stepped?
Nothing is going easy lately on this.