{"id":1959,"date":"2015-05-20T08:39:54","date_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:39:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/?p=1959"},"modified":"2015-05-20T08:39:54","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T12:39:54","slug":"research-and-development-mishap","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/?p=1959","title":{"rendered":"Research and Development Mishap."},"content":{"rendered":"<p id=\"top\" \/>Several years ago I machined an adjustable cam gear for the 2.0. It was a single piece of aluminum and adjusted by having offset holes for the cam dowel in the center to alter the cam timing. To make a long story short, you will notice that there is very little material left in the center. I intended to make a support washer for this to make it more solid, but &#8230; I never quite got around to it. I had actually been running the gear for quite a while, and you can probably imagine what happened from there. While exiting the highway on the way to work: Clang! clang! clang! as it went bouncing down the road. After a quick tow to work, I saw what was left. I replaced the factory steel gear a few days later and headed home. I actually have three (new 2 piece design, and stronger of course) adjustable cam gears already in progress, so once I get one finished up I&#8217;ll see if it fares better!<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_1962\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0299.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1962\" title=\"pre-shear gear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/IMG_0299-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"pre-shear gear\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1962\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">pre-shear gear<\/p><\/div>\n<div id=\"attachment_1961\" style=\"width: 160px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-05-20-08.29.36.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-1961\" class=\"size-thumbnail wp-image-1961\" title=\"remains of gear\" src=\"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015-05-20-08.29.36-150x150.jpg\" alt=\"remains of gear\" width=\"150\" height=\"150\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-1961\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">remains of gear<\/p><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Several years ago I machined an adjustable cam gear for the 2.0. It was a single piece of aluminum and adjusted by having offset holes for the cam dowel in the center to alter the cam timing. To make a &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/?p=1959\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1959","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-1993-pontiac-sunbird-coupe"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1959"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1963,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1959\/revisions\/1963"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1959"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1959"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.fiveocd.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1959"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}