350 distributor gear puzzling UGLY wear

Yeah, lots of time to do weird-er stuff, go out and do risky stuff, recover from injuries, all that. Wifey should be thankful.

Jim

 

back to the farms daze....like jumping off the roof of a tobacco shed. or who could pick up the front end of said tractor. or lot car and hitting a telephone pole OR one of those big propane tanks and put a BIG gouge in it. thankfully it didn't blow. slowed down after that.
yeah, boring.....

 

A fella can get used to boring... not as much fun but you do tend to live longer.

Jim

 

insanity works for me

 

you two will keep boring away from your engines

 

Yeah, I need to call and check on those roller cams...

Jim

 

so i found somebody that had an iron t/c. bought it. got it. nothing like the pic. junk.
went roundy round with the clown. they took it back.
early 60's omc stern drive with buick v6. they made alum for fresh water and iron for sea water.
on the prowl for iron

 

Figured you'd have a carbon fiber t/c fabbed up by now.....

 

the cover that was shown on eBay ad seemed to be same as aluminum v6 - 350 etc. Taking into account gear pocket wear of course. And it might have sealed better- longer than aluminum.. Thought timing marks could be different. I might have bought it myself, when I first started out. But if you receive something other than pictured its a whole different story. Lot of money for sure. Have any pics?

 

Can't you just sleeve the aluminum one? Sounds like you have the tools...

We used to have a Doghouse also, gone now.

https://pauldorpat.com/2009/09/05/seattle-now-then-all-roads-lead-to-the-dog-house/

 

I was at the shop of engine builder associated with precision turbo a while back and was looking at spec sheet for thrust plate to control movement of cam. I ain't certain - but modification - grinding of front of can to allow space to fasten plate to face of block . Would something like that work.

 

I used the bronze cam thrust plate TA-ROL100 on my build.

 

alum vs iron issue. the alum is what it is, alum casting. not much meat around the gear end. i.e the alum hole has been stretching. i think(?) that running hi rpm's and a blower is making some parts of the 350 stretch. sleeving is like sleeving butter. unless we pour a ton of devcon around it. yuk.
i think the iron t/c would be a big help in everything on the front. just have to find one, a good one.

 

found a buick guy, no less, in kansas who has an iron t/c and coming to me. we were talking about buick boat motors. didn't know
the v6 ones had extra casting material built in. too bad they never did the 350's. how much is that engine worth........AND why

 

pictures of iron t/cvr
have to vaporize so it will nice and clean. 15 lbs

 

what about the gear pocket? How does it look

 

going to vaporize all of it. that just cleans and does not upset anything. but i wont have the dizzy loose stretching the hole. no stretching iron.

 

Maybe we need a timing cover girdle?

 

NAHHHHH, I just let everything hang out

 

Bahahahhaha!