BennyW
New member
Good morning from France,
So I own a 62 Ford Falcon Squire.
I pulled the engine off a couple days ago because I had two bad expansion plugs.
Bought the car a year ago from Mexico, it had a high mileage so I wanted to have a check and opened up the engine.
My cylinder are good, it's been rebored to +.03 with .03 pistons.
However, all my bearings are shot, there was too much play, so I'll need to change them. No problem here .010 will do the job and is available.
My main concern is that my camshaft is shot too. It has bits missing on the side of journals.
This is a mechanical camshaft with solid lifters.
I have found master rebuilt kits on a few websites such as ronrpm, northern auto parts, clegg and so on.
But they can't provide the camshaft and solid lifters. After digging the internet, I cannot find a MECHANICAL camshaft. There are heaps of hydraulic camshaft + lifters kits.
Is it possible to swap from mechanical to hydraulic camshaft ? If so, do I need to change the valve train ?
Machining work is quite expensive here in France, and for foreign engine you have to source and supply the parts yourself.
I am not looking to increase perf, and need to watch my budget.
So far a complete rebuild kit (w/o camshaft + lifters) is $1000 (shipping included). Machining work only for the head is about $600 here.
If you add rebuilding the camshaft, it will go over the 170 crate engine from S&J ($2000)
So I'm scratching my head here...
Any help, feedback or anything will be highly appreciated.
Cheers
So I own a 62 Ford Falcon Squire.
I pulled the engine off a couple days ago because I had two bad expansion plugs.
Bought the car a year ago from Mexico, it had a high mileage so I wanted to have a check and opened up the engine.
My cylinder are good, it's been rebored to +.03 with .03 pistons.
However, all my bearings are shot, there was too much play, so I'll need to change them. No problem here .010 will do the job and is available.
My main concern is that my camshaft is shot too. It has bits missing on the side of journals.
This is a mechanical camshaft with solid lifters.
I have found master rebuilt kits on a few websites such as ronrpm, northern auto parts, clegg and so on.
But they can't provide the camshaft and solid lifters. After digging the internet, I cannot find a MECHANICAL camshaft. There are heaps of hydraulic camshaft + lifters kits.
Is it possible to swap from mechanical to hydraulic camshaft ? If so, do I need to change the valve train ?
Machining work is quite expensive here in France, and for foreign engine you have to source and supply the parts yourself.
I am not looking to increase perf, and need to watch my budget.
So far a complete rebuild kit (w/o camshaft + lifters) is $1000 (shipping included). Machining work only for the head is about $600 here.
If you add rebuilding the camshaft, it will go over the 170 crate engine from S&J ($2000)
So I'm scratching my head here...
Any help, feedback or anything will be highly appreciated.
Cheers