That_guy
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- San Antonio, TX
I have been putting the 1950 8N back together after doing some "refreshing" on it and went to start it. After about 2 attempts to crank I stopped as it was making a weird sound. Started investigating and noticed the timing cover housing that the governor attaches to was cracked. I removed the governor and found that the camshaft timing gear was destroyed and metal pieces all over the place. What could have caused this?
How hard is it to replace the camshaft timing gear and timing cover housing that the governor attaches to? From what I can tell it looks like the gear bolts on the camshaft with four bolts so theoretically I should be able to replace it by bolting on a new one?