new post on sheared cam pin---

[flysure1]

I think fast64ranchero has my mistake pinpointed, I now need to find a new pin and the spacer he is talking about, I think I have misplaced it somewhere---this is what I get for working on the overhaul over about 6 months time, I thought the new cam might have had a pin in it and the old cam would still have a pin in it---nope----I had to switch the pin into the new cam evidently as it is not in the old cam.---what I have sticking out is the oval plate that is covering the front of the cam and it sticks through that, then the pin in the hole in the end of the cam, then I had the sprocket on to the pin, then a bolt in the end of the cam with a washer on the bolt that holds the sprocket on along with the bolt when tightened, I must be missing the spacer he talks about that goes between cam sticking out and the pin----confused yet--I am ---

 

[Ronbo]

Strange....thats the same set up the engine I have on the stand has. There was NO washer whatsoever so I added one to the bolt. I'll have to pull the cover on the engine in the car and see what it has. That won't happen until the weekend though.

Ron

 

[63comet]

This washer or ring we are talking about, has to go on the cam before you put the pin in and it also has a bevel on the inside towards the cam to match the bevel on the end of the cam. I also lost one due to a 6-7 months rebuild, fortunately I remembered it and found another at a junkyard, when I finished the rebuild.

 

[Anonymous]

Pictures, anybody?

 

[Anonymous]

Now I see what happened <smacks forehead>. You pulled the cam snout out tight against the thrust plate. Catalogs show the cam shaft thrust kit, but no spacer.

 

[jamyers]

flyshure1, you really need to get a smaller avatar picture, the one you're using is so big it's shoving all the text over into a little column.