Re: Dummy Timing Chain Install Question

Posted by fred kanter On 2010/11/9 16:46:23

Re: Comment by "Packard V8" on Crankshaft timing sprocket markings etc. You have referred me to the V8 Service Manual to illustrate your point. This forum is discussing 46-54 Six and Straight cars, not V8's so it does not apply. The V8 sprocket is larger daimeter leaving room for an "outboard" mark.

You state as follows:

"I'm not sure what u are calling an "industry standard" but placing the "O" mark on the face of the flange that the harmonic balancer presses against is unusual at best. Mite be somekind of chinese or other 3rd world standard but not US nor EC standard that i've seen on countless engines across countless manufacturers.

I have in my office over 10,000 Original Packard Blueprints and indeed on all Six and straight 8 crankshaft sprockets the "O" is on the mating face with the harmonic balancer. As far as I know Packards were manufractured in the USA, not China.

We sell parts for all other US makes and I am intimately familiar with parts for those makes also. I checked our stock of ORIGINAL NOS samples of Hudson, early Cadillac, Buick, Oldsmobile, Pontiac (up to 1980), Lincoln and other makes. All of them have the "O" on the mating face as I stated. Some cars in later years have the "O" nearer to the teeth.

Therefore what I described as "industry standard" or common practice is in fact so. The 3rd world did not manufacture these parts in the era the cars were made, ie the 30's/40's/ 50's and the EC was not in existance, therefore it cannot be "third world standard" as you incorrectly speculate.

We are in good company where we have some of our parts manufactured, our sources in Asia supply Mercedes truck, GM,Ford, Chrysler, Toyota and dozens of other OEM's. Our parts are lifetime waranteed and I can't think of the last time an engine part failed in use due to poor manufacture. We stand behind what we sell,

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