distributor gear ?????'s

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distributor gear ?????'s

July 31, 2008, 02:00:37 AM

THE QUESTION : can any one tell me what car i can get a tfi with iron gear from i have searched hi and low and i cant seem to find any thing that is helpful i was told a lincoln town car but not sure
i was given one out of idk what is there a way of telling what gear it has on it

Backstory:

well every one i havnt been on in a long while cause some drunk ran a red light and totaled my bird but i gots me a new one with a weird engine combo

i got a a9l and a 91' mustang harness slapped on a 289 with ported e7 heads cobra rockers and a comp 280h cam (302) firing order the a9l has been tweecered to the right firing order all dumped in a 84' t-bird

yeah i know its a lil diffrent but it works i ahve fired it up it idles good and revs fine i have not driven it yet because i dont have the right gear on my distributor it has a steel one and i need a iron one

WOOOO ITS GOOD TO BE BACK IN A BIRD!!!!!

distributor gear ?????'s

Reply #1 – July 31, 2008, 09:23:34 AM

any non-roller cam 289/302/351 should have an iron gear. its the shaft diameter is what you need to determine. there is a .468" and a .531".

distributor gear ?????'s

Reply #2 – July 31, 2008, 10:42:21 AM

i will measure the shaft but does the shaft diameter determine wether or not it is iron i am looking for a tfi that i can just drop in that has an iron gear

i really dont want to mess with swapping gears in the dist

distributor gear ?????'s

Reply #3 – July 31, 2008, 11:16:51 AM

typically the roller cam motors have a steel gear. an 85 CFI mustang may have the iron gear.

distributor gear ?????'s

Reply #4 – July 31, 2008, 11:20:54 AM

i will look into that is there any thing on the distributor that will let me know what gear it has on it

distributor gear ?????'s

Reply #5 – July 31, 2008, 07:41:16 PM

what about a truck 302 pre-'94? They were non-roller cammmed.

Interestingly enough, according to Rockauto the trucks and the CFI 302's had the hardened gear -- Standard part # DG17. I checked through an '88 F-150 and an '85 T-bird and got the same results as an '87 T-bird which was the same as a '90 Mustang.

Checking an '81 T-bird 5.0 gave me the other part #

The one you want is Standard part # DG1