anyone have a pic of a damaged stationary gear? please post...are there occurences of this part failing among fd owners? i know they were supposed to be the strongest in the fd.



fritz

 

Here, now imagine it broken.



Anyway jokes aside this is the only pic i have of one.

 

Just like the pic but no teeth.....

 

hehe, of course



so it loses teeth (bad) and doesn't majorly crack apart or anything.



i was just wondering for those that popped their motor and it started shaking like a jackhammer if the shaking was due to a lost seal, or the lost seal being wedged on the side of the rotor, or if missing gear teeth caused the rotor to spin erraticaly out of phase/wrong path.

 

id go with apex seals but it would be cool going out in a bumpy blaze of shrapnel would be a cool way to go too

 

a bent eccentric shaft that wobbled inside the stationary gear bearing and caused the front rotor to smack the front plate.

 

I have yet to see one fail ever and we spin some good RPM's on our engines over here and we've been doing it for a long time on a lot of diffrent cars...

 

i guess dragon means...... rule out broken stationary gear

 

i may have a bad one..

not quite sure if this is the norm as this is my first rebuild..

ill see if i can take some pics..

the top portion of the teeth are beveled..

almost looks like wear..

 

best pic ive got on file....