<VV> Early vs. Late - issue of the superiority

[Jim Houston]

  My '52 Chevy inline 6 had some kind of fiber camshaft gear.  I 
stripped the gears off of it at least once that I remember...  
replacement gear was the same material, so I went with an aftermarket 
aluminum gear from Clifford ...

Jim Houston

On 9/25/2010 8:44 AM, Tony Underwood wrote:
> At 11:07 PM 9/20/2010, Mark Durham wrote:
>> Sorry guys, no picture. All I remember is when I took the pan off in the
>> investigation phase (after the dismal compression check), there were no gear
>> teeth sticking out at the bottom, and there were a bunch of plastic chunks
>> of teeth that came down with the pan.  I went to my usual auto parts store
>> and got the necessary parts including a new cam with aluminum gear already
>> on it, and rebuilt the motor. They said Chevy had done a run of those
>> because they ran quieter, but they, the parts store, had had a lot of
>> business from Chevy owners, it wasn't just the Corvair.
>> This was a late 62 almost 63, so was assembled in mid 62, and I had this
>> happen in 1969 or 1970.
>> Mark Durham
>
>
> There was also that resin-fiber gear that got discussed in here a few
> years back, something that showed up on Ebay (?) or some
> place.  Orange-brown, shaped exactly like a Corvair cam gear and was
> being hawked as such, only one I ever saw.   Obviously aftermarket
> but evidently somebody somewhere must have thought it was a worthy
> effort to have produced it in the first place.
>
>
> I *have* seen some fiber-resin gears on other things along the way,
> and they seemed to work.   I saw one on a dismantled-for-overhaul
> Ford 6 cylinder back in the late '60s somewhere...   Whether or not
> it would work in a Corvair engine was academic; never seen one since.
>
>
>
> tony..
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