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To: tigers@Autox.Team.Net
Subject: cam change and grills
From: Anita Barrett <anitabrt@mindspring.com>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 1997 18:39:15 -0500
At 03:13 pm 1/24/97 -0400, you wrote:
>HELLO TIGER FANS,
>HAS ANYONE INSTALLED A CAM IN THEIR TIGER
>WITHOUT PULLING THE ENGINE ? (I CAN REMOVE MY $1200 GRILL).
>ALSO DOES ANYBODY HAVE A SET OF HEADERS FOR SALE ?
>TNX, PERRY 
>
  After my SVO cam wiped a lobe, I changed to a new cam and lifters in
my Tiger II .  I swaped in a 351C; but I assume you could do it on a 289
or 260 the same way.  Pull the waterpump, alternator, radiator,etc.  You
can keep the pan on and use a " Victor" timing chain set, but I don't 
recommend it.  Pull the pan and clean out all the steel chunks from your
old cam and lifters.  Be sure to disassemble the oil cooler if you wiped
a cam. There is a valve in one lower end of it that collects chunks.  
(Assuming you have a Tiger II with the dual tube oil cooler.)  Obviously
you must pull the grill.
    By the way; conserning all the talk about the egg-crate grill of a Tiger II.
The SS trim around the grill is NOT the same as the trim around an 
Ailpine "bar" grill. It is much wider at the top. I don't know about the
trim on the early Tigers.  The egg-crate grill is also difficult to clean
and polish.
        Jim Barrett Tiger II 351C and others.


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