Subject: Tonti Engine in a Loopframe cont.
Author: joe jump
Date: Jul 23, 2001, 10:15 AM
Post ID: 1707609172
Okay, we have established that the timing cover dictates the location of the
front engine mount-reverting to a loop frame timing cover will negate the
requirement to change the frame tabs on a loop frame/tonti engine marriage.
ALso, by converting the tonti engine to run a generator with the Teo Lamers
crankshaft adapter-this is good info!
Now to throw a fly in the buttermilk. Two more possible problems:
1) I've been informed that there is an interference with the tachometer
drive gear on the camshaft (tonti motor) with the loopframe timing cover.
I'm having a brain cramp right now and can't envision the tach gear on the
cam-must be located on the forward side of the cam drive sprocket, but is it
integral with the sprocket? I know some, if not all Eldos had chain driven
cams/oil pump-are those cams different on the forward end than tonti engines
,i.e., longer up front?
2) I was also told the dual point distributor used on tonti engines will
interfere (physically) with the generator. So will the Eldo distributor plug
into a tonti engine case? I have a distributor from a V700- is it different
than an Eldo distributor?
Thanks in advance for any help! This is what discussion groups are for-to
discuss all the details that aren't in the books!
Joe in St Louis
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