Date: February 17, 2006 10:51:40 PM PST Subject: Timing gear Good for you! You are lucky to have found this in time! Others haven't been as fortunate, and have ended up with messed-up gears in their accessory case. This shows why only FORGED gears will work in this application, and why they charge you so much for a FORGED gear! --Apple-Mail-18-901332445 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1

I'm not so sure that the material is the problem.=A0 = Look at the wear pattern and you'll see that the tip of the teeth are = worn and a matching spot on the adjacent tooth is worn where the tip of = the mating gear tooth contacted.=A0 The tooth profile is clearly wrong = and doesn't match the one on the mating gear.=A0 Who knows, now that = it's mashed itself into compliance it may last forever as I don't see = any evidence of galling.=A0 A gear designer told me once gears wear = themselves in they never wear out.=A0 I wouldn't count on that happening = in this case, but I don't think a material change will fix this.=A0 Are = all gears from this supplier wrong?=A0 I would worry if I had one in my = engine.

Gary Casey

From: "Paul Lipps" <elippse@sbcglobal.net>

Date: February 17, 2006 10:51:40 PM PST

Subject: Timing gear

Good for = you! You are lucky to have found this in time! Others haven't been as = fortunate, and have ended up with messed-up gears in their accessory = case. This shows why only FORGED gears will work in this application, = and why they charge you so much for a FORGED=A0gear!

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