Larry,
Make sure two of your pistons are at top dead center. It's possible your
center or rear cam journal is hitting a connecting rod. If the rods are
straight up and down, there's no possible interference with the cam.
Lawrie
British Sportscar Center
----- Original Message -----
From: "Larry Daniels" <ladaniels@sbcglobal.net>
To: <mgs@autox.team.net>
Sent: Tuesday, June 22, 2004 5:51 PM
Subject: Stubborn Camshaft
> Gents,
>
> I'm having a problem pulling the camshaft out of my 79 B. The head is
off,
> the tappets and pushrods are out, the distributor and drive spindle are
out as
> is the oil pump and it's drive shaft. The camshaft locating plate is off.
> When I try to pull the camshaft out, I get a metallic clank and it stops.
I
> am getting 25/1000ths of motion before it stops. What am I missing?
>
> The metallic clank seems to be coming from the area of the back half of
the
> shaft. I hate to get heavy handed and try forcing things, but I am at a
loss.
> Any ideas?
>
> This probably has absolutely nothing to do with the problem, but the
tappets
> on #1 and #3 exhaust were sticking and had to be tapped through from
> underneath. At first try to remove the cam, I pulled these two tappets up
> until they stuck in place at a point where they had no contact with the
cam
> lobe when the camshaft was turned 360 degrees. Tapping them out later
made no
> difference. Also, the face of these two tappets and those corresponding
lobes
> on the cam shaft are pitted. They are the only two defaced and the only
two
> that didn't come out easily from above. Thoughts here?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Larry Daniels
> 79 MGB LE
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