Has anyone heard of applying the process of annealing to your internals? I don't know if it's been done, but it seems like it would be a great idea.... any thoughts?

 

I fyou were to annealize the internals wouldn't it scratch the softer metals when they came in contact? I'm not too kean on my metalurgy anymore so I'd like to know also. Annealizing effects expansion rates, heat latency also.

 

full annealing restores a heat treated alloy to its original properties. its used to incease ductility, formability, and reduce stress, the hardness and strength is usually reduced unless it normalized.

 

I know that our trannies have no upgrade possibilities (as far as strength goes)... could this process possibly help out? interesting thought.....

From what I know about it (which is not that much, so feel free to correct)... its a process of heating up a metal to very very extreme temperatures and then slowly cooling it down in a controlled matter. This is supposed to flatten out and remove any imperfections in the metal.... sounds like it may be beneficial...

 

Two problems:

The gears will now be too soft to even function in the gearbox.

The gears will dimensionally distort.

Annealling is something done to relieve stress prior to heat treating. A forging or weldment is usually annealed to relieve the stress from forging/welding to prevent cracking in heat treatment.

Since the gearing is either direct hardened or case hardened, annealing will render these part useless.

 

Yeah, I helped anneal our cro-moly chassis. It took FOREVER (hundreds of feet of tubing). We did it right after everything was welded, and before it was heat-treated and powdercoated. I was wathcing a show on TLC, and they did it to a sheet of aluminum, and it came out soft as butter.