timing gear

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bottomfeeder pete

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I have an old flathead that was rebuilt and 20,000 miles put on it back in 1960. Then it was pulled and set in a 32 pick up and has been sitting since. I have taken the motor apart everything looks good and not to dirty. My question is about the fiber timing gear it is a press on it looks excellent. But being soak with oil all this time do you think it is usable still. Would it get soggy or soft and fail? I don`t really want to pull cam or spend the cash if I don`t need to. Any thoughts on this? thanx in advance Pete.
 
bottomfeeder pete said:
I have an old flathead that was rebuilt and 20,000 miles put on it back in 1960. Then it was pulled and set in a 32 pick up and has been sitting since. I have taken the motor apart everything looks good and not to dirty. My question is about the fiber timing gear it is a press on it looks excellent. But being soak with oil all this time do you think it is usable still. Would it get soggy or soft and fail? I don`t really want to pull cam or spend the cash if I don`t need to. Any thoughts on this? thanx in advance Pete.
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If the teeth on the timing gear look good (not heavily worn, chipped or broken) I would suggest running it as it is. In other words...."don't try to fix it if it ain't broken". Now last year mine broke and I devised a way to remove the old fiber press on gear and replaced it with an aluminum press on gear without the need to remove the cam. I believe the fiber gear I had on there was made in China with inferior molding compound. It only lasted about 2000 miles before about 5/6 teeth completely stripped off. JM
 
There is tooling to r&r timing gear without removing the cam from the engine... And I picked up a press on type timing gear, aluminum, just in case... ( I ran into a nos
SU-1 and passed it up, had no gear) There was some posting on this site on the subject... And, you may have guessed, I don't like the fiber gears... Karl
 
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