cam spacer
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I know it goes on before you put in the dowel pin...I am assuming its a ford six cylinder or a small block thing, because big block guys know nothing about it and I read at compcams that 300 ford engines can come with two different types of camshaft timing gear sprockets? One style that needs the spacer and one style that have it built in (or integral) the sprocket. Is this true with the 200 also? Without it will you keep wearing your distributor gears bad? What else could happen if you run an engine without one?
80Stang
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Restoration guide says the part number should be 6265 (Cxxx-6265-x) and it is shown for 390/428/289/351/429 engines also. I think it should be there always as it is shown in shop manuals from '64 and '80 at least, and one was in a '68 and a '80 engine. Where did you lose yours?
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Thanks for the pics.....I had another engine rebuilt on another car and noticed that the distributor was wearing the gears from side to side and not in the middle. I put another distributor in for a little while and found that the distributor was wearing the same way. A friend of mine put this block together, but he never builds six cylinders he is more of a big block guy and he had no clue about the cam spacer. Another friend brought the spacer to my attention, so we are going to pull it apart and make sure there is one there, and if not we will need to put one on. I found one local too, but I was still wondering what type of damage could be done if you drove an engine like this without one? and could I simly fix the problem by putting one on?
