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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: moparx] #3057366
07/08/22 10:20 AM
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Originally Posted by moparx
Originally Posted by MarkZ
Bronze gear on 20w50 with a standard pump:



what time frame/use/passes did that gear have ?
my thoughts are, where do the gear particles cause the most damage to the rest of the internals ?
beer


2.5 years, six passes and roughly 3k miles. Cold oil pressure would run 80 PSI. After the change from 20w50 to 10w40 cold pressure is something like 65 and hot idle is 25. Been checking the gear every Spring since and it looks like it's wearing OK. Don't drive the car too much anymore though.

No idea what the clearances are in the motor. Would have to find the paperwork from the shop.


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: MarkZ] #3062892
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An update to this thread i start. I changed the gear and bushing, i changed to Hughes "melonized" gear and i have drive it for about 800 miles more now and checked it, it has no visible wear at all now on both intermediate shaft gear or the gear on the cam and i drive this engine with a Milodon high volume/high pressure pump, external oiling and Valvoline vr1 20w-50. Hot engine just over 20 psi idle, 2000 rpm just over 40 psi, 3000 rpm 60 psi and so on. Main clearance 0.0033" rods 0.0028" and pushrod oiling aswell as oiling from number 4 cambearing through the rocker shaft. Its running great.

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3062921
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To me the cam looks to be extremely worn in the are area indicated. I've never seen a tooth profile like this. The profile of the cam teeth should match those on the intermediate gear which has a "V" pattern


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3062929
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Originally Posted by Mopar493
An update to this thread i start. I changed the gear and bushing, i changed to Hughes "melonized" gear and i have drive it for about 800 miles more now and checked it, it has no visible wear at all now on both intermediate shaft gear or the gear on the cam and i drive this engine with a Milodon high volume/high pressure pump, external oiling and Valvoline vr1 20w-50. Hot engine just over 20 psi idle, 2000 rpm just over 40 psi, 3000 rpm 60 psi and so on. Main clearance 0.0033" rods 0.0028" and pushrod oiling aswell as oiling from number 4 cambearing through the rocker shaft. Its running great.


Looks nice to me as well.


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Stanton] #3062944
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Originally Posted by Stanton
To me the cam looks to be extremely worn in the are area indicated. I've never seen a tooth profile like this. The profile of the cam teeth should match those on the intermediate gear which has a "V" pattern



The teeth have a bevel so it looks like wear.

Look at the lowest tooth to the right, down low.

Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Stanton] #3063021
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if it "ain't" making metal (in the oil and oil filter) your probably good: luck: twocents
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I bought several of those gears for both BB and SB earlier this year and hope to use one on a BB soon luck


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Stanton] #3063040
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Originally Posted by Stanton
To me the cam looks to be extremely worn in the are area indicated. I've never seen a tooth profile like this. The profile of the cam teeth should match those on the intermediate gear which has a "V" pattern


In that case the cam gear was worn out as new. The gear looks the same when i installed the cam new. See the added pic with the cam installed with a bronze gear, its the same.

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Cab_Burge] #3063048
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Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
if it "ain't" making metal (in the oil and oil filter) your probably good: luck: twocents
Keep us in the loop please wave
I bought several of those gears for both BB and SB earlier this year and hope to use one on a BB soon luck

No metal in oil, but it sure was with the bronze "sacrificial" gear

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Cab_Burge] #3081964
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Originally Posted by Cab_Burge
if it "ain't" making metal (in the oil and oil filter) your probably good: luck: twocents
Keep us in the loop please wave
I bought several of those gears for both BB and SB earlier this year and hope to use one on a BB soon luck



An update again about the melonized gear, i have drive it for another 1200 miles and the melonized gear looks same as new, no visible marks at all, same with the cam gear and nothing in oil or oil filter. So about 2000 miles with the melonized gear so far and no wear at all. I drive the milodon high volyme pump with external oiling and Valvoline vr1 20w-50.

Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3081967
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Good news, thanks for the update.

I just installed one in mine and fired it yesterday with a new roller cam install.

Will drive a couple of times then pull it to check.

Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: LAD 524] #3082228
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Originally Posted by LAD 524
Good news, thanks for the update.

I just installed one in mine and fired it yesterday with a new roller cam install.

Will drive a couple of times then pull it to check.


Im sure it will be just fine. They are so incredible much better than the bronze gear, no signs of wear after 2000 miles, the bronze was toasted after 600 miles.

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3082265
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I like what I’m seeing here!! up up


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: fast68plymouth] #3082306
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I have been running the Hughes Melonized gear for about 6k miles, I checked it at about 5k & it was like new

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3082587
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I probably go through 1 bronze gear every two years on a 493, HV oil pump, NSS car. My machinist suggested the melonized gear, but when I contacted Hughes, they said it would wear the cam (custom solid roller), so I elected to just stock up on the bronze gears.

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Dads426] #3082607
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Same bronze gear in my racecar since 2013. Over 800 passes. High volume pump. Springs are 310/805.
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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: fast68plymouth] #3082840
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Originally Posted by fast68plymouth
I like what I’m seeing here!! up up

Same here... cuz I swapped the dyno-only bronze gear for a Hughes/Crane melonized piece before the engine went back in luck


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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3127459
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An update about the melonized drive gear after one season and about 3000 more miles it still looks great. It only has a nice wear pattern. Same with the cam gear.

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Re: Bronze gear wear [Re: Mopar493] #3127463
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I posted about my wear issues I had awhile back in this thread and I may have found my issue over the winter. I had cam walk from timing cover flex. Welded a support on the cover to stiffen it up so I think that will fix the cam walk. Be interesting to see if the gear wear goes away. I suspect it will.


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