v10 36-1 wheel, usable?

ashford · Post by **ashford** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 6:03 am

i ran across a relativly cheap ford 6.8l v10. its even fire and factory 36-1 trigger wheel. i know that in the past the # cylinders bust be divisible by # teeth, just wondering if this still applies.

Matt Cramer · Post by **Matt Cramer** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:09 am

I thought Ford V10s used a 40-1 crank wheel, but I would be interested in the answer as well as I have a customer asking about a 36-1 cam wheel on a V8.

Post by **jsmcortina** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 7:18 am

For even fire engines, most certainly the number of teeth per cam rev must be divisible by the number of cylinders. (So V8 won't work with 36-1 on the cam.)

For oddfire I need to double check - it is possible that it could be made to work, but it will depend on the oddfire angle.

James

ashford · Post by **ashford** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:01 am

Matt Cramer wrote:I thought Ford V10s used a 40-1 crank wheel, but I would be interested in the answer as well as I have a customer asking about a 36-1 cam wheel on a V8.

you may be right, however i can't confirm either way. no pics exist that i can find and parts diagrams/ service manual all show v8 engines since they are similar.

racingmini_mtl · Post by **racingmini_mtl** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:11 am

jsmcortina wrote:For oddfire I need to double check - it is possible that it could be made to work, but it will depend on the oddfire angle.

Wouldn't you still need to have a wheel with a multiple of 5 as the number of teeth? So that would still make a 36-1 invalid.

Jean

Post by **jsmcortina** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 11:28 am

racingmini_mtl wrote:
jsmcortina wrote:For oddfire I need to double check - it is possible that it could be made to work, but it will depend on the oddfire angle.
Wouldn't you still need to have a wheel with a multiple of 5 as the number of teeth? So that would still make a 36-1 invalid.

Jean

It depends on whether the odd-ness could put the trigger on an actual tooth and whether the code would allow for that.

James

racingmini_mtl · Post by **racingmini_mtl** » Thu Jan 29, 2015 12:02 pm

jsmcortina wrote:It depends on whether the odd-ness could put the trigger on an actual tooth and whether the code would allow for that.

James

I thought the code used the actual teeth for half the cylinders and an offset from actual teeth for the odd cylinders. Which is why I thought the requirements were the same whether it's even or odd fire.

Jean

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