[TerryH]

I had recently developed a noise in the engine area of my Model A, and was taking it to Jim Nichols, our local Model A guru/mechanic, earlier today, when it suddenly got real noisy.....then just quit. Felt just like it had run out of gas. Called AAA and they had me over to Jim's very quickly. We quickly determined it was the timing gear, so in about 30 minutes he had it out. He had one of the figerglas laminated gears on hand, and has had very good luck with them, so it is going in right now, and I should get my car back by 4:00 pm this afternoon. That fiber gear was about 20 years old and had about 12,500 miles on it; thank goodness it did not happen out on the open road somewhere far away from home.