Quote: got a call. the builder said it was the timing gear on the crank for the gear drive. it was broke and came apart when he took the cover off. we didnt even mess with it so thats pretty wild. it was a milodon gear drive. never heard of that breaking on a motor that was never even cranked before!
he said he looked at his notes and he set the valve lash so he would have had to turn the motor when he built it and it was fine then. i am not sure who is going to pick up the bill for the tear down and reassembly. he called milodon to see what they said.
That's interesting...
That gear on those units are very beefy. Seems inconceivable, but? One of the necessary steps to set up a Milodon is to remove the factory timing cover pins in the block, set the "lash" between the gears and redrill the block to accept the oversize pins. I would imagine that if this wasn't done(or done improperly) that you could have a problem. Possibily some debris wound up wedging itself between the gears?? All speculation without actually seeing it.
