Timing Gears

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Re: Timing Gears

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slotcarone wrote:Just letting you guys know almost every American V8 engine from this era has this type of nylon cam gear from the factory.
In the 70's and 80's Ford even had a completely fibre timing gear on the good old V6 Essex engine, these would fail and the engine would be destroyed as I found out to my expense on a 3.0 Capri in the early 80's. Every pushrod and valve was bent and it had even cracked a couple of pistons. Luckily in those days you could pick up a fully recon full engine for about £300 so with some help from some mates I was back on the road in a few days.

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