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Clone, Rob @ Action Auto parts has a cam grinder who does some cam regrinding off stock cams. I have two of his reground cams; one on my blue buggy and one for the V-6 that I was planning on putting in my black buggy. Rob is the head of the machine shop @ Action and is an old AC guy who has converted to water pumpers. I will go and talk to him for you after the first of the year (we are at the dunes right now) if you want and aren't in too much of a hurry. I need to look and see if I have an old cam and lifter set lying around that I can use to speed things up if you want to go this way.

The cam the guy ground for me is an RV cam, a little more lift but the duration is still close to stock. If I remember right, it is the Parkerizing of the cam (I think this is the surface finish they still use) that is important to have done correctly. There was a big stink about it not being done right many years ago which causes a lot of cam failure especially in regrinds.

Anyway, the offer is there.

Lee

Is it standard procedure to always replace the distributor gear and the crank mounted cam gear?

I can't see any wear on the cam gear but there might be a bit on the brass gear. I am not concerned about that one due to only running a distributor to keep the drive in place for the fuel pump.

I have the case stripped, empty and ready to power wash with a hot water pressure washer at work.

The crank is ready to go to the machine shop for checking and polishing.

Moving on,,,,,

Clonebug

Clonebug wrote:Is it standard procedure to always replace the distributor gear and the crank mounted cam gear?

I can't see any wear on the cam gear but there might be a bit on the brass gear. I am not concerned about that one due to only running a distributor to keep the drive in place for the fuel pump.

I have the case stripped, empty and ready to power wash with a hot water pressure washer at work.

The crank is ready to go to the machine shop for checking and polishing.

Moving on,,,,,

Clonebug

Always save all them gears.I used old VW ones in my build.

Update,

I have the crank at the machine shop for polishing. He is going to mic it to check tolerances to make sure it will still be in spec.

I have the case stripped.

Can I pull all the oil gallery plugs out and the relief valves and take the pressure washer to the galleries to get them clean??

I was going to spray some degreaser on the case and then power wash everything.

Clonebug

Do you have a Harbor Freight around????? They have a great selection of shrink wrap around for your wiring and it is cheap.

If you pull those plugs be prepared to drill and tap them for plugs

Fiatdude wrote:Do you have a Harbor Freight around????? They have a great selection of shrink wrap around for your wiring and it is cheap.

If you pull those plugs be prepared to drill and tap them for plugs

I have a guy that is going to drill and tap them for me so with that I am good to go.

I think we do have Harbor Freight here if I can find it.... it just arrived not too long ago. I'll have to go check it out next week.


Thanks,

Clonebug

Clone, there is a HF in Everett if you need it.

Lee

Edited. An 8 hour drive through rain, 34° w/freezing/frozen fog on leaving the Oregon coast, wind, sun and traffic jams was just too much; I got onto another subject.

Deleted, my mistake!

Lee

I don't get it. What would you do with that type shrink wrap and the wiring?

Harbor freight is in Tacoma

Ol'fogasaurus wrote:Clone, there is a HF in Everett if you need it.

Lee

Edited. An 8 hour drive through rain, 34° w/freezing/frozen fog on leaving the Oregon coast, wind, sun and traffic jams was just too much; I got onto another subject.

I was wondering what you were talking about..... I was just about ready to call you on the Cell and ask politely if you had gone mad.



Clonebug

Yeah, I had gone bonkers (but I am back now)! The temp kept going up and down from 33°/34° to the low 40's then back down everytime we got into fog which happened almost every time we hit a town on I-5. On the coast, the fog had frozen in places and fell to the ground which made things slippery mostly on the coast. Both highways from the coast to I-5 had had mud slides which we were concerned about but they had been fairly well cleaned up (we went the Drain/Elkton way) by the time we got there.

I just got the January 2012 edition of the HF Tools newspaper (I've been out of town a week) and on page 21 they show: "Heat Shrink Tubing Assortment w/case" (qty 88), lot number 87519 for $3.99. They also have "Heat Shrink Tubing Set" (qty 120) lot number 67530 for $4.99.

The closest store to you is in Belly-ham http://www.harborfreight.com/wa/bellingham.html

Lee

CobraJet wrote:I don't get it. What would you do with that type shrink wrap and the wiring?

You get a whole bunch of wires and run them down the middle of the tubing then heat the tubing and it shrinks tight around the wiring and WHA_LA -- -- Pretty wiring harness -- just did it all through my car and it really cleans up chit wiring

Before after

OK, I get it now. That's heat shrink tubing. I thought you meant shrink wrap for wrapping packages.

That was my post as that is where I headed. Like minds.....

Lee