This is my first time posting here but I have referenced the site a few times.
I have classic boat I am rebuilding that has a Ford 302 reverse rotation engine. I just had a custom roller cam made for it from 8620 billet. The gear on the cam is carburized 8620.
Unfortunately, after I had the cam made, I was told that the distributor gear it mates with must be either bronze (which will wear fast, composite, or melonized steel). None of these options are available in a reverse rotation distributor gear, they only make he old cast iron gears that were used in the 70’s when this boat was made.
My background is in hypoid gear manufacturing but I do not have much metallurgy experience.
I have access to get the gears cut by reverse engineering my current cast iron gear, but I do not know what steel would be best to melonize to mate with an 8620 carburized gear.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
I have classic boat I am rebuilding that has a Ford 302 reverse rotation engine. I just had a custom roller cam made for it from 8620 billet. The gear on the cam is carburized 8620.
Unfortunately, after I had the cam made, I was told that the distributor gear it mates with must be either bronze (which will wear fast, composite, or melonized steel). None of these options are available in a reverse rotation distributor gear, they only make he old cast iron gears that were used in the 70’s when this boat was made.
My background is in hypoid gear manufacturing but I do not have much metallurgy experience.
I have access to get the gears cut by reverse engineering my current cast iron gear, but I do not know what steel would be best to melonize to mate with an 8620 carburized gear.
Your help would be greatly appreciated.
