Bumbed in cam town

[Anonymous]

I was on my merry way to a friends in another town not too far away when my falcon starts running ruff then backfires and dies. I cost to the side of the road and start looking for the problem. I pull the dizzy out and find the gear is ground off and the cam gear isn't much better. How can this happen. The motor had about 750 miles on the rebuild. I put it together myself so there is deffinetly room for error there.

Thanks

 

[Anonymous]

my distributor locked up


http://fordsix.com/forum/viewtopic.php? ... ght=#57751

 

[MustangSix]

All it takes is for a bit of debris to get into the oil pump. The gears jam, the distributor stops, and the cam then grinds the gears clean.

 

[Anonymous]

Man this is getting scary....

Scary Scary Scary....


Eat em up and spit em out....
Hope mine doesn't do that...

 

[Anonymous]

It's enough to make a person keep a spare cam gear in the trunk as backup.

 

[MustangSix]

It only happens when you get some metal shavings or something else really hard in the pump. It has to get past the screen. That means it has to have ended up in there during assembly, or it was small metal bits that got thru the screen.

In either case, it's not a common problem that requires a spare dizzy gear in the glovebox.

 

[Anonymous]

Well I was thinkin iffn it happened away from home and such, is that gear used on many other Ford products? You could pull the pan and clean the pump/fix the pickup, but I can't make a gear worth a darn.