[Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...

[BOB KRAMER]

Bill,

Larry may have remembered the liner issue as the cause of Jack's car being down incorrectly but the rest of the story was most likely accurate. As I remember it Jack had some issue and they put the head on Jack's car. The next day his camshaft failed putting Jack out for the weekend, making the head available for the liner spinning exercise. 

These details aren't a big deal, and do not affect what is another great Jack story, but in this case Jack's car went down because of a part failure that he quickly went on to analyzing. I don't know if a universal answer to the cause of the camshaft failure was ever arrived at but Jack had a cam that was ground on one a new remanufactured blank. He surmised that there was a issue with the camshaft distributor drive gear hobbing on these aftermarket cores, affecting its mating with the distributor drive gear. The evidence was in the wear on the drive gear. Jack at work.

Bob Kramer
rkramer3 at austin.rr.com
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  From: BillDentin at aol.com 
  To: GSFuqua1 at aol.com ; cartravel at pobox.com ; tony at tonydrews.com 
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  Sent: Saturday, August 23, 2008 8:32 AM
  Subject: Re: [Fot] My favorite memory of Jack...


  In a message dated 08/22/2008 9:56:42 PM Central Daylight Time, GSFuqua1 at aol.com writes:



    Well said Larry.  While I wasn't at your garage I was at Hallett that year and remember your problems & Uncle Jack's.  Just shows that regardless of the outcome of the competition there is always a good time to be had with friends.



  I could be wrong, but Larry might not be remembering that Hallett story 100% correctly.  In fact, I think Jack was working on our Thunder Bolt (not his car, and it certainly was not his mistake).  The two and three liners were in wrong.  J K Jackson pointed it out, and Jack Drews led an effort to make 'at track' corrections.  It was an ill-advised, albeit enthusiastic effort, (the figure eight gaskets got compromised).  Kas couldn't bear to watch, and left the area with a grin on his face.  We had a ton of kibitzers, and Jack was getting far more help and advise than he needed.  I've got some great pictures of Jack working to first get the liners out (enough to turn them), and then to get them back in.  We were using a really big hammer.  Can't remember why we needed Larry's head, but we did, and I returned it to Jack after I got back home.  We actually got the car running, but the oil looked like a light chocolate milk shake.  We had plans to change the oil and run it a BARBER the following week end, but decided that was a bad idea.

  Bill Dentinger



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