[Tigers] cam gear

[Rollright at aol.com]

Hello,
 
David Franchi wrote about the cam gear's nylon teeth giving way. I lost 4  
teeth on my 260 and I swallowed a valve which rotated in the cylinder after  
breaking off, and the sharp end cracked a piston in half.
 
I needed a complete engine rebuild.
 
Do yourself a favor. If you haven't rebuilt your engine, pull the water  
pump off and the front engine chain cover and CHECK THAT GEAR !. Ford went to  
all steel gears in 1966 to get away from the problem. Who would have 
dreamed  that these engines would be run as long as they have and that the Nylon 
would  have seen 50 years of heat cycles.  

Jim  Armstrong
Mk 1A  
382002083
LRXFE