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Re: cam break in?'s

To: genehart@att.net
Subject: Re: cam break in?'s
From: Walt Boeninger <walt.boeninger@hp.com>
Date: Thu, 15 Apr 2004 09:01:39 -0700
Well, if it's like a Ford, you aren't turning anything
but the oil pump, so as long as you put the dizzy back
the same way you took it out, you should be right on.
You'll still have to time it, but it will run.

Walt
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genehart@att.net wrote:

> Walt et all,
> 
> Does any of this screw up the timming?
> If the dizzy is set with the cam and the timming marks for TDC, then I don't 
>want to start turning this and knock off the timming when I put the dizzy back 
>on.
> 
> --
> Gene Hart
> genehart@att.net
> 1973 TR6 CF10918 U 
> (Now UO, thanks j.esposito)
> Carmine to Pimento 
> (thanks PPG & Kojack Autobody)-The 
> owner looks like Kojack :)
> Undergoing body & frame off, frame 
> and body reunited :)  
> (thanks patient & loving wife)
> (c)(201)981-3327 
> 
> 
> 
>>Can you take a dead distributor and gut it to use
>>as an oil pump primer....... that's what I use on my
>>Fords..   A piece of plastic tube would never work
>>on a Ford SB, it takes a lot of torque to turn the
>>oil pump.....
>>
>>Walt
>>----
>>
>>Jim Davis wrote:
>>
>>
>>>You'll have to make one, as I don't think they are available
>>>commercially. I've never done this on the oil pump, but a piece of
>>>rubber tube over the oil pump shaft and a similar size bit in your drill
>>>may work. It works on transmission input shafts. 
>>>Otherwise, you could machine or have machined a slot in a 1/2" dia. rod
>>>to match the oil pump shaft.
>>>
>>>Jim Davis
>>>Fortson, GA
>>>CF38690UO
>>> 
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>Where can you get this "Adapter" for the distributor housing?
>>>
>>>Gene,
>>>Cell    - 201-981-3327





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