Should I use a double roller timing set?

mayvillain · Jun 16, 2024

I'm rebuilding the top end of my TBI engine and installing a new timing chain set because, why not? A guy at the bar insisted I use a double roller chain. I have a stock cam.

I'm wondering:

1. If he's right
2. If a double roller chain/sprocket will fit without a new cover, etc.

Any thoughts?

evilunclegrimace · Jun 16, 2024

NO and yes

movietvet · Jun 16, 2024

IMO, as long as you use steel gears and are stock, there is no NEED but if you want to, it will not be a big deal.

I have also sat at a bar and argued, because I could, about using cam buttons.

mayvillain · Jun 16, 2024

movietvet said:
IMO, as long as you use steel gears and are stock, there is no NEED but if you want to, it will not be a big deal.

I have also sat at a bar and argued, because I could, about using cam buttons.

Thanks.

One other question—the video I'm watching on this process said to "remove the oil slinger" etc, but my truck didn't have one. ('92 K1500 5.7L).

The chain/sprockets were original.

Does my model not use it?

movietvet · Jun 16, 2024

If it was not there, I would not worry about it.

L31MaxExpress · Jun 16, 2024

Single roller setup is better.

Schurkey · Jun 16, 2024

I don't remember an oil slinger on any SBC. Ford FE, yes. Olds big 'n' small-blocks, yes.

Single-row timing set is perfectly adequate. Double-row should fit except on Vortecs with the reluctor for the crank sensor taking up too much room.

HotWheelsBurban · Jun 16, 2024

Schurkey said:
I don't remember an oil slinger on any SBC. Ford FE, yes. Olds big 'n' small-blocks, yes.

Single-row timing set is perfectly adequate. Double-row should fit except on Vortecs with the reluctor for the crank sensor taking up too much room.

Double roller will fit on TBI small block engine. Had one on my 90 Burb.

99xcss4 · Jun 16, 2024

I all ways wanted to try these do not know if they would work on a vortec or not I would think that they would be fine on a tbi and there is no chain to were out https://www.summitracing.com/compare

L31MaxExpress · Jun 16, 2024

99xcss4 said:
I all ways wanted to try these do not know if they would work on a vortec or not I would think that they would be fine on a tbi and there is no chain to were out https://www.summitracing.com/compare

I would still go single roller. They last practically forever. Much better than the link style or the double roller chains. The GM/Cloyes single rollers are probably the most long lived, reliable chain you can run under 6,500 rpm. I always make sure the outer two lifter gallery plugs get a 0.030" hole drilled in them. Quick and easy to do by hand with a pin vise.

Should I use a double roller timing set?

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