- 1. Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>
- Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:49:10 -0800
- For those that might some day want to change a cam or some other camshaft duty in the pits without taking off the head, make preparation before hand as follows: I made this alteration to each cam fol
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00108.html (11,024 bytes)
- 2. Re: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 09:31:17 -0500
- As neat as this sounds, I can't ever imagine wanting to change out a camshaft in the paddock. If something happened to the cam or a tappet that wiped out a lobe, the remnants of the calamity are in t
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00117.html (8,161 bytes)
- 3. Re: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: <greenman62@hotmail.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 14:52:20 +0000
- I replaced a cam while the engine was still in the car... I don't recommend It took the better part of a month of a couple hours here and there... I did relpace all the tappets (it was when TRF had t
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00119.html (9,500 bytes)
- 4. RE: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 06:56:51 -0800
- I assumed that everyone was actually talking about doing this to experiment with different camshafts. Naturally if a lobe is toast the follower is too. I know it's heretical, but I've never worried a
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00120.html (9,630 bytes)
- 5. RE: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>
- Date: Mon, 07 Mar 2005 10:28:42 -0500
- When it comes to popping open the pan, I'm a "Cleanliness in next to Godliness" kind of guy. Not that anyone who has seen my shop would believe that, mind you... I am not afraid to get into just abou
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00121.html (8,194 bytes)
- 6. RE: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:10:17 -0800
- If you really wipe something, that's certainly true, but a lot of times it's just a little broken. About mid-season last year I broke an oil pump shaft. I saw the oil light, pushed in the clutch and
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00124.html (10,329 bytes)
- 7. RE: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: tom strange <tstrange@sbcglobal.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 08:41:35 -0800 (PST)
- Dzus fasteners on the head... I LIKE it... develop it and you will have a lot of takers for the same reasons you quote below... I however dont take as many spart parts as you do any more.... I only
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00125.html (9,772 bytes)
- 8. Re: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: "Joe Boruch" <jaboruch@netzero.net>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 21:38:16 GMT
- When I changed the cam there was a problem with the distributor drive gear, so it was not a lifter lobe that got trashed. I did change the lifters, though. Once the cam was out, the lifters were pass
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00126.html (8,934 bytes)
- 9. RE: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>
- Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 13:48:43 -0800
- Wow, how clever. I've got to remember that one. When I changed the cam there was a problem with the distributor drive gear, so it was not a lifter lobe that got trashed. I did change the lifters, tho
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00127.html (9,134 bytes)
- 10. Re: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: Herald948@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:12:11 EST
- << Bill, when you come up with that Dzus fastener system for the head, I'll buy one! You will also need these fasteners on the intake and exhaust manifolds. == You mean you'd waste time removing the
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00132.html (7,670 bytes)
- 11. Re: Changing camshafts (score: 1)
- Author: WEmery7451@aol.com
- Date: Tue, 8 Mar 2005 15:08:08 EST
- << Bill, when you come up with that Dzus fastener system for the head, I'll buy one! You will also need these fasteners on the intake and exhaust manifolds.
- /html/fot/2005-03/msg00133.html (7,386 bytes)
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