[Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?

[Ron Porter]

Whoa....back up the bus!!!

GM had KNOWN problems with soft cams in the 305-350 V8s in the late '70s
into the early '80s. Fore those who whine about Ford's attitude with the V8
SHO cams, they learned all they know from the shoddy way that GM dealt with
this cam issue, and this was on engines that they were still producing.

If your cam that went bad was a Chevy V8 cam, oil had nothing to do with it
(despite what GM tried to tell owners).

Ron Porter

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From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
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Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 12:12 AM
To: Shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: Re: [Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?


I don't know if there was any way to prove it at that time.  It may have
been a coincidence.  I knew the service manager so he worked with the dealer
and GM to cut me a deal on a new cam.


> Was it proved that synthetic oil caused your cam lobes to go out? seems
> rather like a freak appearance to me... like using plastic windows in
future
> liners because the Titanic hit an iceberg (they didn't do that)... not
that
> I'm dissing your judgement, just seems weird to me.
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