Lawnmowers use meshed gears too, at least until the OHC motors came out.
You never heard your neighbor talking about how his belt or chain broke on
his mower.

-----Original Message-----
From: Vanagon Mailing List [mailto:vanagon@gerry.vanagon.com] On Behalf Of
Loren Busch
Sent: Friday, June 22, 2007 11:43 AM
To: vanagon@GERRY.VANAGON.COM
Subject: Re: Timing Chains, Belts, Gears, etc

I'm waiting for the answers on this one......

On 6/22/07, John Rodgers <inua@charter.net> wrote:
>
> Just reading the post about "New Engine Conversion" - and I wonder -
> besides cost, is there any reason why engines have not had meshed gears
> to drive the cams. P
>