Gear Drives

"3 Gear Style" Gear Drives

For over 50 years, Milodon Gear Drives have been acknowledged as the ultimate in quality, strength and durability - whether the use be Top Fuel, Circle Track, Drag Race, Marine or Pro Street. There are lots of gear drive units on the market today, most of them are from overseas. None of them can match the American made quality and experience of Milodon.

Even though Milodon Gear Drives are designed for "All Out Competition", they work equally well in ANY application, including Street. When installed properly, these units will virtually last indefinitely due to the zero wear and their overall brute strength. Cam timing accuracy and consistency are the key to accessing 100% of the cam's available power. A timing chain or an "easy to install" $150 gear drive can not provide this.

Milodon's professionally proven "Fixed Idler Gear" system is capable of maintaining the precise cam timing required to allow the cam to work to its maximum potential power. Cam timing adjustments are easy to perform on the Full Cover Style Assembly through the removable billet cam cover. The adjustment is achieved by changing the position of the cam gear on the cam hub. A simple bolt-on procedure with no offset dowels or keys to mess with. Each movement is detailed on a provided chart which gives the exact position for the desired amount of advance or retard, once top dead center is found.

A professional style three gear unit, unlike a four gear type, does not rob any power from the engine. The billet steel gears mounted solidly to the block, that will not and can not allow the timing to vary, unlike a flexible belt or chain. These factors add up to increased horsepower output and higher RPM potential.


- CHEVY and CHRYSLER -

Gear drive #12000
#12000
Gear drive #13000
#13000

Small Block Chevy with flat carburated cam cover

Chrysler Wedge & Hemi with flat carburated cam cover

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- Benefits of a Milodon Gear Drive -

• Allows precise camshaft degreeing using Milodon's adjustable bolt pattern cam gear and hub assembly.

• Incorporates a full cast aluminum front cover with a removable cam cover that allows quick and easy access to the cam gear for adjustments and cam removal.

• Mounts the fixed idler gear solidly into the main cover itself. This fixed idler system will fully compensate for any crank position, even if the block has been severely align bored, without any sacrifices.

• Uses positive cam end play adjustment and a three-piece roller bearing behind the cam gear to control cam movement, reduce power-robbing drag and stop block face wear.

• NO block machining is required. Hand tools are required to drill and ream the positioning dowel pin holes which, with care, can be done at home.

• Available in the standard "flat cover" configuration which uses a stock style water pump or the "injected/blown with fuel pump drive" style that does not use a stock-style water pump. Blown engines will require a fuel pump extension (see that section for a complete listing).

• For Small Block Chevys, stock factory and Milodon short pumps fit over the 12000 drive with the hardware provided. Big

Block short water pumps will not fit over the 12600 drive without additional spacing.

Gear drive #12600
#12600
Gear drive #12700
#12700

Big Block Chevy with flat carburated cam cover

Big Block Chevy with fuel pump drivecover

 

SMALL BLOCK CHEVY

SB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 12000 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
SB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 1984 & Up, Hydraulic Roller Engine 12001 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
SB Chevy (Injected / Blown Style) 12250 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
SB Chevy (Injected / Blown Style) with larger 1.563 OD Hemi Snout for blown use 12100 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BIG BLOCK CHEVY
BB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 1965-90, Mark IV 12600 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 8.2L, Mark V 12605 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 8.2L, Gen VI, Large Early Cam Nose 12606 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Flat Cover Style) 8.2L, Gen VI, Stock Small Cam Nose 12608 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Injecte d / Blown Style) 1965-90, Mark IV 12700 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Injecte d / Blown Style) 8.2L, Mark V 12705 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Injected / Blown Style) 8.2L, Gen V I 12706 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BB Chevy (Marine Style) 1965-90, Mark IV 12900 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
BIG BLOCK CHRYSLER and HEMI
Chrysler Hemi / Wedge with 3 bolt cam 13000 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Chrysler Hemi / Wedge with 3 bolt cam (Injected / Blown Style) 13250 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart

BILLET GEAR DRIVES

• Cam raised for large stroke engines

• CNC machined from billet 6061 alumunum

• Absolutely solid timing due to billet steel gears not changing shape like a kevlar belt or timing chain.

• What you set the cam at on the engine stand, is the same though the lights at 10,000 RPM.

• Adjustable veneer cam bolt pattern for easy yet.. positive cam degree changes accessible through the removable cam cover.

• Bolt on extreme use rear idler support

• Available for fuel pump drive capability or flat cover.

• Milodon, the cam drive standard for 50 years

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Gear drive #12701
#12701

 

 

CHEVY SMALL BLOCK

Small Block Chevy with cam raised391"

• flat cam cover for carburators.

12002 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
• pump drive cam cover for fuel injected pump or blown with fuel pump extension.. 12251 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart

CHEVY BIG BLOCK

Big Block Chevy with cam raised400"

• flat cam cover for carburators.

12601 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
• pump drive cam cover for fuel injected pump or blown with fuel pump extension.. 12701 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart

CHRYSLER SMALL BLOCK

Big Block Mopar, Wedge and Hemi with cam raised250"

• flat cam cover for carburators.

13001 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
• pump drive cam cover for fuel injected pump or blown with fuel pump extension 13251 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart

 

GEAR DRIVE INSTALL AND CAM DEGREE DVD

This very professional "HOW TO" video gives clear concise, step by step instructions to install a typical gear drive unit and degree the cam. DVD will cover proper setting of the gear lash and correct mounting of the drive assembly. The comprehensive look at cam degreeing shows you how to set your cam to deliver the power you paid for. Buying the correct cam for your application is the first step however to make the intended power the cam must be timed right. Degreeing your cam is a fundamental part of the properly blueprinted engine.

Cam Degree & Drives DVD

14900 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart

 

Cam Degree & Drives book

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FACT - MILODON GEAR DRIVES MAKE HORSEPOWER !!

• Street or Strip, a Milodon Fixed Idler gear drive will make more power than a timing chain or a floating idler gear.
• It will make the same power as when new, virtually indefinitely. Even on the street, it is almost impervious to wear.
• It will keep the same cam timing you set, whether the engine is on the engine stand or at 10,000 rpm.
• Fixed Idler, steel billet gears can not change, unlike all other flexible chain or belt drives.

Hensley Milodon car

When you drive a record holding Hemi 4 Speed Car, you know what you are doing! That's why Ken and Matt Hensley run Milodon.

Gear drive #12960
#12960

CNC BILLET
FUEL PUMP EXTENSIONS

Precision CNC machined from billet aluminum. Fits all Milodon gear drives, as well as other drives and aluminum front covers, and is required to clear belts, etc. on supercharged applications.

2 1/2" Extension with 3/8" Hex Drive 12950 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
4 1/2" Extension with 3/8" Hex Drive 12955 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
5 1/2" Extension with 3/8" Hex Drive 12960 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Replacement Shaft for 2 1/2" Extension 12975 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Replacement Shaft for 4 1/2" Extension 12976 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Replacement Shaft for 5 1/2" Extension 12977 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Gear drive #12970
#12970

GEAR DRIVE CONVERSION KITS

Designed to change your existing Milodon gear drive assembly from a carbureted-style (no cam drive capability) to an injected/blown-style (with a cam driven hex) or vise versa. These complete kits include necessary cam hub, secondary cam cover, all bolt s and camshaft end-play control device.

Small Block Chevy #12000 - #12250

12570 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Small Block Chevy #12250 - #12000 12571 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Big Block Chevy #12700 - #12900 12925 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Big Block Chevy #12600 - #12700 12970 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Big Block Chevy #12700 - #12600 12971 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Chrysler Hemi / Wedge #13000 - #13250 13570 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart
Chrysler Hemi / Wedge #13250 - #13000 13571 Add Milodon gear drive part to cart