This must be unusual. I have taken at least 30 Rootes engines apart and never seen an oil pump-cam gear that was visibly in bad condition. They always looks perfect. Have I been lucky?
I even have some brand new oil pump gears that I probably never will have any use of.
Other opinions???
Kristian Jonsson
Sweden
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Från: steve sage <rootes(at)ix.netcom.com>
Till: alpines(at)autox.team.net <alpines(at)autox.team.net>
Datum: den 17 april 1999 23:47
Ämne: More Fun!!
>Hello Alpiners:
>As I think I posted a couple of days ago, heading down the freeway at
>around 70MPH, my Alpine backfired through the Strombergs three or four
>times and the motor just plain shut down. It would turn over but not
>start after that. I figured my electronic ignition had failed so I
>switched back over to points. No luck. I tried a replacement coil.
>Nothing. Checked the valve adjustment. OK.
>
>Further investgation revealed that the timing was way off. Here's what
>turns out to be the reason: Removal of the distributor reveals that the
>teeth of the oil pump to distributor gears are all worn or broken off!
>The oil pan will be coming off on Monday to see if the cam is OK or if
>there was simply a failure of the oil pump gear for some reason. Has
>anyone else had this happen?
>
>The only good part of all this is that, before I'm done with it, I'll
>have my overdrive in, my head gasket replaced and the head repaired if
>needed, my 4:22 differential gone through (very noisy above 40MPH), and
>my cooling system gone through. If the cam does need to be replaced, I'm
>going with a bit more agressive grind this time. I figure if I spend
>enough time and money on it, the Alpine will be ready for the trip to
>SUNI III in July.
>
>Steve Sage
>
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