Flywheel colour

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Flywheel colour

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Now that i have two blocks to play with i am going to rebuild two silver century's.

One is a lovely short shaft with clutch WSC 1324BB8.

Why has it got a silver hammerite flywheel? The bottom edge of the flywheel also has a line running around it about 5/32" above the bottom.

I always thought that silver flywheel = Villiers ignition and gold flywheels = Wipac ignition.


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Re: Flywheel colour

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Not the best quality photos, but they show the original silver paint and flywheel rim.

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Re: Flywheel colour

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The line running around it is normally for a MK4 wipac ignition, as it looks like you have.
From what I have seen the later painted flywheels will suffer more from corrosion if not painted, seen silver as will as gold ones.
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Re: Flywheel colour

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Cheers Keith, i'll keep it silver and it'll be as original then.
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