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    I have never seen such a ****ed up idea for locating the dissy drive gear, with a keyway for christ's sake,
    Ah, those devilish poms. The keyway or should I say the gap between the keyway , the timing gear, the spacer, and the skew gear is also the oil feed for the timing chain (3.9) so its unlikely to wear much.
    Mine has no wear at 200K.
    Regards Philip A

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    Quote Originally Posted by bee utey View Post

    Never seen a worn key in the cam gear, if it ever came loose the cam bolt would unscrew and punch through the timing cover. I've never seen that! This would have to be the least faulty part of the V8 design.

    Hint: once every year or so you adjust the timing with a timing light to correct for the teeny bit of wear in the chain. That's all folks.
    Does that mean it will never ever happen, I can confidentally say that it will never happen to a Chev or Ford camshaft dissy drive gear, come loose or wear on the keyway/shaft that is, not to mention all that crap hanging out in mid air in front of the cam bearing/journal and the dissy mounted in that flimsy timing cover, Regards Frank.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Tank View Post
    Does that mean it will never ever happen, ? Regards Frank.
    Not at all, Just that so long as you do the bolt up properly the risk of it coming loose and failing is much lower than all the other potential failures Rover V8's are known for. I refuse to get panicky about a risk that is very unlikely to occur in the normal lifetime of an engine. If it worries you by all means fit a Chev or Ford engine, I'm not stopping you.

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    The only time you would even consider a better quality gear would be if you were using a Big Cam in Solid roller or mechanical flat tappet design with agressive ramps and big valve spring pressures . Big solid roller in a RV8 , Not likely !!!!!!

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    Everyone here is blaming the poor old Poms, but surely this is a heritage item from the BOP days.

    Wouldn't all GM motors from around the early 60s have a similar system?

    What about the Holden iron V6 which is a descendent of the BOP V8?
    So if it was a crazy system it must be those crazy yanks, because a BOP cam fits an RV8.
    Regards Philip A

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    That is exactly right Philip. The Rover V8 originated from a Buick, so it always makes me laugh when GM lovers slag it off, makes them look like twits indeed.

    Ron.

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    Quote Originally Posted by bee utey View Post
    Not at all, Just that so long as you do the bolt up properly the risk of it coming loose and failing is much lower than all the other potential failures Rover V8's are known for. I refuse to get panicky about a risk that is very unlikely to occur in the normal lifetime of an engine. If it worries you by all means fit a Chev or Ford engine, I'm not stopping you.
    Resurrecting an old thread. For background I fitted new distributor drive gear to camshaft early this year along with new dizzy gear as originals had wear and were causing vibration in dizzy. "new" gear from UK. The other day, engine running just warming up and it-went "off". Sounded like timing had suddenly gone haywire. Pull distributor cap and rotor button show timing is now way off and I mean way off. First thought is jumped timing chain but its a new Cloyes true roller. Long story after looking at rocker movement checking harmonic balancer marks/TDC etc timing chain all good. Distributor all good. But when you crank engine over you can see the rotor button movement is erratic in places and skips. A teardown coming up timing cover off. But can only think non genuine gear has failed or woodruff key sheared. Not happy ...

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    Look a Unicorn!
    There is always a first time for this type of thing.
    I wonder if the bolt came loose.
    Regards PhilipA (still around after all these years , hopefully some more.)
    I had forgotten doing that.

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    I'll let you know what i find. Must admit it was about last area I could conceive going wrong. But given parts lottery now - who knows? Still - not happy .

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    Quote Originally Posted by Meccles View Post
    I'll let you know what i find. Must admit it was about last area I could conceive going wrong. But given parts lottery now - who knows? Still - not happy .
    Some of those Cloyes replacement timing gear sets have both cam wheel and the sprocket adjustable for valve timing. If you have one of those it MAY have slipped on either one of them.

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