Nylon cam gear years

[legopnuematic]

My 79 (350 small block) had the original timing set blow up at some point, guessing late 80s as it was parked in 1993 and the heads had been redone and were very clean, and a new timing set installed.

The old chain was flopping around pretty good and wearing into the cover

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And found all this down in the pickup, parts of the gear, the garter spring for the front seal.

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[Turbo4whl]

I’m pretty sure all the classic GM engines are interference engines.

The 402 I spoke of had 8 bent valves, memory is bad but I think they were the intake valves. You could not see it until they were in the valve resurfacing machine.