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

[Ron Porter]

That's what you get for buying one of those!!

(Be quiet, Dave!!)

Actually, I didn't think they were that bad, except for those battering-ram
bumpers.

Ron Porter

-----Original Message-----
From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
On Behalf Of Carl Prochilo
Sent: Saturday, January 08, 2005 7:17 PM
To: shotimes@autox.team.net
Subject: RE: [Shotimes] What Cause a car to run too lean?


Ron,  You've never owned a Mustang II 2.3L from either 1974 or 1975 and
had a rocker arm fall off the upper end of the motor at 60 MPH?  Damn
those soft cam lobes.  That was my first experience replacing a camshaft
in 15 degree weather.  What a lousy job!!!
-- 
Cheers,
Carl Prochilo
92 Ultra Red Crimson

On Sat, January 8, 2005 5:23 pm, Ron Porter said:
> 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
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: shotimes-admin@autox.team.net [mailto:shotimes-admin@autox.team.net]
> On Behalf Of bjshov8
> 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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