You wrote: 
>
>
>After reading my Series I to IV Alpine workshop manual,  I have some 
>questions to why the manual says to remove the sump during a camshaft 
>change.  I was able to do it without, and can see no reason for doing 
so. 
> Also I had to remove the motor mounts and jack the engine up to allow 
the 
>cam to be removed through the grill area.
>
>
>Setting the oil pumps position for the distrubutor was not a problem.
How do you do this without dropping the pan???? Do ypou 'wind the cam 
in'. I assume the pan removal was for this purpose.
John
>
>Any ideas what our friends across the pond were thinking, or have I 
>overlooked something really obvious.
>
>
>Jarrid Gross
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