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Title: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: ag1234 on October 06, 2024, 09:06:38 PM
Cheap please.
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Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: Moderator on October 07, 2024, 10:38:02 AM
Didn't Buick use the same part when they installed automatics?
Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: BlownMGB-V8 on October 08, 2024, 09:54:02 AM
Art, I may have one.

Jim
Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: ag1234 on October 09, 2024, 07:22:36 PM
Curtis and all :Olds used cast flywheel. 215" Buick used sheet steel, for 5 element Dual Path torque convertor.
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Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: MGBV8 on October 09, 2024, 08:28:29 PM
Did not know that about the Olds.  My Buick 215 flexplate that I no longer have was definitely not cast.
Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: joe_padavano on October 09, 2024, 10:16:19 PM
The flywheel needs to match the trans, not the engine. The Buick two speed AT used a torque converter and a conventional flexplate. The Olds Rotohydramatic 5 used an internal fluid coupling. Without the rotational mass of a torque converter on the back of the crank, the Olds 215 needed a heavy flywheel, even with an AT. The AT flywheel has a spring-loaded damper plate that looks like the center of a clutch disc. The trans has what looks like an MT input shaft that fits into it. The bellhousing on the RH5 trans case is smaller as a result. If you put an RH5 behind a Buick motor, you need the Olds flywheel, and vice-versa for putting a Buick trans on the Olds motor.


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Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: BlownMGB-V8 on October 10, 2024, 10:06:40 AM
OK. I used to have 2 of those. Used them for feet on the leveling jacks on our old RV. Long gone.

Jim
Title: Re: Wanted 215 Olds Automatic flywheels
Post by: ag1234 on October 10, 2024, 01:09:26 PM
Take out the torsional hub and they're lighter than a steel, stick flywheel.
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