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03-25-2009, 03:01 PM | #1 |
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cam degreeing help
I am having a problem degreeing my cam, I degree my cams all the time never had this problem. I can go 2 to 8 degrees advance or retarded and all I get is the same results 109-110 degrees, is something binding somewhere.
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03-25-2009, 03:09 PM | #2 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
Are you sure that your timing wheel is on the crankshaft.... not on the camshaft. You would get the result you described if your timing wheel in on the cam.
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03-25-2009, 03:14 PM | #3 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
Degree wheel is on the crank , have double checked tdc several times to make sure it was right.
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03-25-2009, 07:25 PM | #4 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
That's a good one.All that I can think of may be a sticky needle or plunger on your dial indicator.And make sure that the stem of the indicator is on the same angle as the valve stem.I have had the stem of the indicator ride into the "dish" of the retainer and give you bad readings.Good luck. You will figure it out!
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03-25-2009, 07:46 PM | #5 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
I have the heads off and got the indicator reading off the edge of lifter.
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03-25-2009, 08:36 PM | #6 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
Check your dial indicator. I had problems with the one I got with my Comp Cams Degree Wheel kit.
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Re: cam degreeing help
I would also check to the opening and closing spec @.050", always afraid of asymmetrical lobes skewing the numbers.
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03-26-2009, 03:10 PM | #8 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
Dial Ind. is good, tried different lifters, I am wondering if it is my timing chain setup, I am using the cloyes hex adjust setup. Anybody had a problem with them.
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03-26-2009, 07:57 PM | #9 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
not implying anything, but is the math right? made the mistake once of subtracting the 2 numbers instead of adding them and dividing by 2.
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03-26-2009, 08:32 PM | #10 |
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Re: cam degreeing help
Make sure that you take all of the stretch out of the chain.
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