Allen,
It's virtually impossible to find individual U20 timing components for sale.
Once in a great while you will see some timing stuff on ebay but the vendors
generally don't sell the individual components any more as they are so rare.
I recently forked over a sizeable chunk of money for a complete set. When I
rebuild my engine, I am keeping all of my timing stuff for spares.
As for finding gears and tensioners, well those are the really hard to find
items. The chains and guides are more available but it's the tensioners and
gears that are so rare and difficult to reproduce. I have talked with all
the vendors and they pretty much say the same thing- "It's not going to be
cost effective to build the reproduction timing components because someone
will need to foot the bill for the molds and machining. As soon as that is
done, it would be a simple matter to undercut the price and steal the
business. Sad but true."
My advice would be to look for a U20 engine that is complete and for sale.
Check the timing components and see if they are in decent shape. It would
also be good to have the rest of the U20 engine there for spare parts. I am
doing this with my U20 engine. Any part replaced will be kept for spares.
FWIW
Andrew Murphy
SoCalROC
From: "Allen Blackmon" <orangedawg@hotmail.com>
Reply-To: "Allen Blackmon" <orangedawg@hotmail.com>
To: datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net
Subject: U20 timing stuff
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 18:03:45 +0000
To List,
Horror upon horrors, but a very knowledgable lister took a look at my timing
gears and upper tensioner and announced that they need to be replaced.
Curses!! Anyone got any info for me? Particularly jackshaft and am gears
as well as upper tensioner? Perhaps a real good used set. I've found a
crank gear and I've got chains, just need the above. Anyone switched over
to toothed gears and belts? Anyone interested in that?
Allen
1970 2000
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