Timing Gear.
Timing Gear.
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I've done this when I sheared my cam gear off. I started with a hammer, then added a punch, then some chisels, then a crow bar, then a pry bar and ended up bustin the gear (big surprise), well I had nothin to lose, so I kept on a pryin, wasn't doing much, so I whipped out the torch, heated it up, then pryed (ah, the wonders of expansion and contraction), well that did the trick, I finally got the mulled up piece of steel off of there. Basically the only way to pry on this is to bust the gear, by lucky you've got a 6 though, I never could have got my assortment of tools even close to the chain on a V-8. Make sure you just go ahead and replace the whole pan gasket while you are doing this, mine started leakin about 2 months after and I had to tear back into it.
If you do get it off of there, file the shaft down a little, mostly to get the scracths out you leave from your chisels and pry bars, then get a short piece of pipe a little bigger then the shaft, but not bigger then the metal part on the gear. Line up the dots so it's timed right, then tap the gear on with the pipe and hammer, it goes on 10 times easier then it comes off.
My symphonies, this ain't easy.
(Have fun and chaulk this one up to experience)
Redneck-Cowboy
If you do get it off of there, file the shaft down a little, mostly to get the scracths out you leave from your chisels and pry bars, then get a short piece of pipe a little bigger then the shaft, but not bigger then the metal part on the gear. Line up the dots so it's timed right, then tap the gear on with the pipe and hammer, it goes on 10 times easier then it comes off.
My symphonies, this ain't easy.
(Have fun and chaulk this one up to experience)
Redneck-Cowboy
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Yep, never touched it, you would have to pull the front-end off and radiator to get the cam out.
Actually that is what I thought broke when the truck quit runnin for me, it started knockin and backfirin, but the cam gear just sheared off.
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Actually that is what I thought broke when the truck quit runnin for me, it started knockin and backfirin, but the cam gear just sheared off.
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THANKS AGAIN FOR ALL YOUR HELP, I DID NOT HAVE A TORCH, SO I BOUGHT A PULLEY PULLER FROM DISCOUNT AUTO, TOOK A SAWALL AND CUT NOTCHES IN THE STEEL PART OF THE CAM GEAR PULLED THAT SUCKER OFF AND TAPPED THE NEW ONE ON WITH A HAMMER AND PIECE OF WOOD. THE OLD FORD IS RUNNING AGAIN , IT ONLY HAS 365000 ON IT, FIRST GEAR NOT BAD HUH.
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I assume your not mad, but that's what all caps represents, just a heads up. But 365,000 ain't bad at all.
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Sorry about using all caps, the computer program i use requires all caps and sometimes I forget.
The truck was a construction truck. So they put alot of miles on it, but it was alot of highway miles.
The truck was a construction truck. So they put alot of miles on it, but it was alot of highway miles.
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