bronze dist. gear question.

[moparking]

I have a corvette friend with a problem I had never encountered before. He had a bronze distributor gear on a regular comp cam flat tappet cam and it chewed the gear up,and left him dead in the water.Is this problem to be expected with this gear/cam combo?I told him to get a regular stock replacement dist. gear and try again.I also talked him into pulling the pan off to remove the bronze shavings,and inspect for further damage. Anybody ever had any experience with this sort of thing?

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[Mopar_Maniac]

Please don't quote me on this, but I believe that the bronze gear is designed only for use with a roller cam shaft.
I do know that bronze will not last grinding against steel.

Later,
Jeff C.

[mopar413]

CAN'T REMEMBER S### BUT I THINK THE BRONZE GEAR WAS FOR A STEEL BILLET CAMSHAFT.ANYONE
KNOW FOR SURE?

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[Mopar_Maniac]

Mopar413...
You win the prize.

I checked my book and it say's "required for use with steel billet cam's".

Later,
Jeff C.

[POWER]

the bronze gear is not compatable with a cast iron flat tappet cam.your friend needs to put a regular steel gear on.bronze gears are made for steel core's which is what a roller is.

[DAVE JONES]

I'd clean out your system throughly. Bronze is very, very abrasive. When it gets chewed up it sinters and will flow thru your system unless it just broke up into large parts. Unfortunently this usually doesnt happen this way. If this was slowly chewing itself up there are about 1 million pcs Lapping your buddies engine to a slow death........Just my opinion but if this happened to me I would change the oil a couple of times, then pull the pan and intake and clean everything. He may want to pull the lifters if they are hydrolic and clean them out too.,,good luck...DAVE


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[Stan Cameron]

moparking, if he has a flat tappet cam the stock gear will be ok.
The bronze gear must be used with roller cams.

Regards,
Stan

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[This message has been edited by Stan Cameron (edited July 05, 2000).]