IML: Nylon Cam Gear

["Eric" <gearhead@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

It was about 2:30AM one morning when I realized the full effects of an old 
nylon coated cam gear. Fortunately, I was able to coast the car 6 blocks 
into my local parts house parking lot after the cam gear's catastrophic 
failure.

Someone asked when Chrysler started using these cam gears. I think I've 
heard around 1966-69 as the intro for these, from the list here. If your 
motor easily fouls it's plugs, idles roughly, and you have a jumping timing 
mark on the crankshaft pulley, prepare for the inevitable cam gear 
replacement procedure. Your motor will return to it's smooth self after its 
done.

Eric
'63 Crown Four-Door
'63 Belvedere Four-Door sedan
'72 Newport Custom sedan.
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From: "mike sutton" <mikanlin62@xxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: IML: nylon timing parts
Date: Tue, 22 Feb 2005 23:31:46 -0800
Reply-To: mailing-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Imho, nylon timing gears are the devils work, been there done them and yes
they were used on many other brands as well.  Apparently whoever came up
with that  ridiculous idea was smart enough to convince other stupid people
to buy into it and put them into their car lines as well.   Id take the 2 or
3 decibel more noise any day ,  seen enough broken and chipped nylon gear
teeth in my life already.

Mikey
62 Crown Coupe



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