B303 cam? Do I need to change distributor gear ??

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2002BLGT

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I will be starting my tear down wednesday on my day off , I have to work thursday and then I am off for four days straight , I wanna make sure I have everything I need to do this , thinking about putting in a new pickup coil since I will have the distributor out anyway ....so do I need to put a brass gear on the distributor I know on some cams they use different hardness metals for the gears ???

 

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Nope...It will work just fine.

-Smoke

 

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so I dont need to change it ?? cool that will save me 15 bucks LOL .....

 

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its bronze, not brass. And contrary to back in the day when roller cams were designed with billet steel gears on the cam a bronze gear was required. However in an application in which a factory roller cam was used I dont think you have to change it

Ryan

 

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vanzcorp said:

its bronze, not brass. And contrary to back in the day when roller cams were designed with billet steel gears on the cam a bronze gear was required. However in an application in which a factory roller cam was used I dont think you have to change it

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well its been along time since I have been into working on a 5.0 ...last time I put a cam in one was 1995 so I have forgotten some of the stuff I once knew but me and 3 of my buddies are getting back into the racing thing again ...so I am learning all over again

 

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Yeah...no need to change it...

 

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2002BLGT said:

well its been along time since I have been into working on a 5.0 ...last time I put a cam in one was 1995 so I have forgotten some of the stuff I once knew but me and 3 of my buddies are getting back into the racing thing again ...so I am learning all over again

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good to hear man, I dont even own a mustang, haha