Flywheel and coupler

The flywheel and coupler arrived today back from the machinist. Tony Smith a local gunsmith and machinist did a great job! From the original Lovejoy L110 he machined a perpendicular surface, cut it to length and turned the end to fit snuggly in the flywheel. He also drilled and tapped the 6 holes. Since a tap for the original M12 x 100 bolts was impossible to find and expensive to buy we switched to 1/2 by 20.

Next he skimmed the outer flywheel surface to fit inside the flat adapter plate (1/2 inch aluminum).

The pilot bearing was bad so Tony knocked it out and I got a new one at a local auto parts store and lightly hammered it in. The old one was obviously bad and would have caused addition drag.


















I highly recommend Tony for more EV work.