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1. cam timing (score: 1): Author: "Jack W. Drews" <vinttr4@geneseo.net>; Date: Sat, 05 Mar 2005 16:28:33 -0600; Has anybody out there in FOT land tried checking their cam timing with the engine in the car? Is it possible? I'm looking for one-to-two degree differences. uncle jack; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00071.html (7,101 bytes)
2. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Henry Frye <henry@henryfrye.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 18:07:20 -0500; I swapped cams last year with the engine in the car. Dialing the cam in is doable, although not all the comfortable! I had to remove the radiator, oil cooler, bonnet, etc. Having the car on the lift; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00073.html (7,623 bytes)
3. RE: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:15:02 -0800; I'm working on it--that's what the funny degree wheel and pointer is all Has anybody out there in FOT land tried checking their cam timing with the engine in the car? Is it possible? I'm looking for; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00077.html (7,693 bytes)
4. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "Joe Boruch" <jaboruch@netzero.net>; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 00:24:30 GMT; Jack, I changed a cam with the engine in the car once and the head on. I seem to recall that I made some spacers to keep the push rods vertical to set the cam timing off of the push rod, instead of m; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00079.html (7,958 bytes)
5. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "kas kastner" <kaskas@cox.net>; Date: Sat, 5 Mar 2005 16:40:17 -0800; The thing to do of course is to degree the front pulley BEFORE you put the engine together, then it's a walk in the park. After? Then you need to measure the diameter , do the math and mark off the i; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00081.html (8,651 bytes)
6. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Fubog1@aol.com; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 09:48:52 EST; OK, a simple way to check with engine together & in the car, if it's a symetrical lobe cam... Set #4 (6) inlet & exhaust valve clearance to a big number, .050-.060 is enough for most profiles. It doe; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00099.html (7,896 bytes)
7. RE: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Bill Babcock <BillB@bnj.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 07:37:53 -0800; Cool. The shop manual has a similar check. I just tried it and it seems quite accurate. OK, a simple way to check with engine together & in the car, if it's a symetrical lobe cam... Set #4 (6) inlet; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00100.html (8,343 bytes)
8. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Fubog1@aol.com; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 11:08:18 EST; I just tried it and it seems quite accurate. It's as accurate as the ramps are... I guess that's why we have dial indicators & degree wheels (or "Cam Doctors" if we can afford them!) Glen; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00102.html (7,539 bytes)
9. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: Larry Young <cartravel@pobox.com>; Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 11:08:53 -0600; If the head was on, how did you hold the lifters up while you were changing the cam?; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00104.html (7,600 bytes)
10. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "Brad Kahler" <brad.kahler@141.com>; Date: Sun, 06 Mar 2005 12:24:22 -0600; I can attest to one of those incidents where Russ timed a cam in the padock! It was kinda nice having Kas and Russ there to help the rookie mechanic out when he so desperately needed help! Without th; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00105.html (8,144 bytes)
11. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "Joe Boruch" <jaboruch@netzero.com>; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 19:35:06 GMT; I used telescoping magnets to lift the lifters up and clothespins to hold the magnets up. I had the pan off and watched from underneath until the lifter was up out of the way, while a buddy lifted an; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00107.html (8,267 bytes)
12. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "John Kipping" <johnkipping@inet.net.nz>; Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:24:24 +1300; Checking cam timing is easy in the car, it's altering it that gets more difficult. All standard cams are symmetrical about TDC so set the rocker gaps on 7 and 8 to say .060" (using the rule of nine),; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00109.html (8,476 bytes)
13. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: "John Kipping" <johnkipping@inet.net.nz>; Date: Mon, 7 Mar 2005 10:08:17 +1300; I did it on a Spitfire engine once by lifting the followers up and holding them up with the pushrods wedged against the side held in place with elastic bands round the rocker studs. John Kipping -- O; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00111.html (8,514 bytes)
14. Re: cam timing (score: 1): Author: WEmery7451@aol.com; Date: Sun, 6 Mar 2005 22:36:56 EST; << I used telescoping magnets to lift the lifters up and clothespins to hold the magnets up. I had the pan off and watched from underneath until the lifter was up out of the way, while a buddy lifted; /html/fot/2005-03/msg00116.html (8,102 bytes)
15. Cam Timing (score: 1): Author: Richard Taylor <n196x@mindspring.com>; Date: Mon, 20 Apr 1998 21:44:04 -0400; A couple of months ago I rebuilt the head on my TR-4. While I was at it I replaced the timing chain. Yes, great care was taken to not rotate anything whilst the chain was removed. The performance of; /html/fot/1998-04/msg00079.html (6,880 bytes)
16. Re: Cam Timing (score: 1): Author: Malaboge <Malaboge@aol.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 00:02:00 EDT; << Yes, great care was taken to not rotate anything whilst the chain was removed. The performance of the engine was not nearly as great an improvement as I had wished for and now I'm concerned that s; /html/fot/1998-04/msg00080.html (7,738 bytes)
17. RE: Cam Timing (score: 1): Author: "Bownes, Robert M. (EXCH)" <RMBOWNES@intermedia.com>; Date: Tue, 21 Apr 1998 11:22:56 -0400; My degree wheel has the instructions printed right on the face. Bought it at the local NAPA for $10. Still couldn't really tell you that I do it 100% correctly... iii; /html/fot/1998-04/msg00081.html (8,623 bytes)

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