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Re: FW: Timing gears..get the calibers

To: Brian Hollands <Brian_Hollands@adp.com>
Subject: Re: FW: Timing gears..get the calibers
From: Vicki Burrows <gregnvicki@earthlink.net>
Date: Thu, 16 May 2002 21:39:27 -0700
Humm, maybe I posted too soon... this sounds promising...
Greg Burrows

Brian Hollands wrote:

> Dave forgot to send this to the list when he replied to me so I'm forwarding
> it to anyone who's interested
>
> -----Original Message-----
> Dave,
> I just measured the ID of my old timing gears with vernier calipers - I
> don't have an inside mic and my shafts are in the engine.
> Crank gear ID is 1.375 inches,
> Jackshaft gear ID is 1.105 inches.
> I'm not sure what you're looking for with the 0.561 inch measurement.  If
> you mean the thickness of the gear I got 0.612-0.614 depending on which gear
> I measured.
> Let me know if you need more.  If I get a chance next weekend - won't happen
> this weekend - I can mic the nose of Woody's shafts.  Wow, that doesn't
> sound good does it?  Anyway, his engine is apart and I've got a set of mic's
> if no one else has come up with the measurements by then.
> By the way, this came to me without the list being cc'd.
> Hope that helps,
>
> Brian '69 2000
> Tampa, FL
> http://web.tampabay.rr.com/oilleak/
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Dave Stoll [mailto:dgstoll@gwi.net]
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 9:09 PM
> To: Brian_Hollands@adp.com
> Subject: Re: Timing gears..get the calibers
>
> Bingo!!! thats just what you need to search the available hardware in the
> industrial world.
>
> Can someone tell me the shaft diameter of the jackshaft which the 2
> jack sprockets go on and the diameter of the crankshaft where the
> crank sprocket goes on?
>
> A 3/8 pitch chain is a #35 chain
>
> Both my Martin and Browing catalogs list the sprockets with a minimun
> bore.  (Like a sprocket blank with a minimal hole in the center.)
>
> The catalogs area listing these sprockets as 0.561" wide from outside of
> tooth to outside of tooth.  Can someone verifiy this?
>
> Can someone communicate with me who has a used set of sprockets
> and calibers to read dimensions?
>
> If the crankshaft diameter is less than 1.3125",  all but the cam sprocket
> may be relatively easy to machine from stock sprockets.
>
> Thanks,
> daveS
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: Brian Hollands <Brian_Hollands@adp.com>
> To: Dave Stoll <dgstoll@gwi.net>
> Sent: Thursday, May 16, 2002 3:37 PM
> Subject: RE: Timing gears...again.
>
> > Dave,
> > The comp prep manual states "A good replacement (for the stock chain)
> would
> > be a Reynold 3/8th inch pitch duplex chain part number 114038"
> > Hope that helps,
> > Brian '69 2000
> > Tampa, FL
> >
> >
> > -----Original Message-----
> >
> > Thats what I've asked for in an earlier email but no one has responded....
> > I've been paid to design gearboxes and this simple information would be
> very
> > helpful.
> >
> > The pitch of the chain is the key information
> > daveS
>
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