Cam Swap

[malc]

No cam today, two weeks and they canīt deliver on the last of their promised dates....

[malc]

It seems to be a good idea to have gone as far as I have, itīs pretty mucky under those heads.....
err head only managed one.


Sorry itīs a tad fuzzy....

[DanStokes]

Looks like one of my pics! I mean, the fuzzy part. Great that you're making progress in spite of the shipping issues (we're at Full Stop as we await the rest of our Time-Serts so we can sympathize).

Dan

[malc]

Lucky me....Friday was another holiday so my parts are still in transit from Madrid.
Jegs shipped the cam on the 22nd November......
I have also ordered a new timing chain for stock setup roller cams.
Plenty to do cleaning the heads and block plus the oil pan gasket.

I wanted Time-Serts to repair a head bolt thread in my block but no one would ship to Europe.
Ended up with Helicoil bought here in Spain.

[malc]

My roller cam arrived this evening......īspose their making up for the Friday fiesta.

Started de gunking my heads today.

[malc]

Something else Iīve discovered about my head gaskets.
I use a Clevite Nitroseal 5746 gasket which is 0.026 compressed thickness,
this gives me the ideal quench, my pistons being 0.020 down the hole.
But I have found out these gaskets lack cooling holes between the center cylinders which
because of my overheating issues I think I need.
So when this all goes back together Iīm going to open up those holes...

Clevite gasket.


A Fel Pro gasket.

[anotheridiot]

Looks like one of my pics! I mean, the fuzzy part. Great that you're making progress in spite of the shipping issues (we're at Full Stop as we await the rest of our Time-Serts so we can sympathize).

Dan

never heard of time serts, what are they like blind hole thread repair or just stronger than springs?

[malc]

never heard of time serts, what are they like blind hole thread repair or just stronger than springs?

You can find out here.... Aluminum Block Deck Fix

[malc]

Now.....back to the malc show....
not that much has happened, Iīm here right now.

The cam and lifters are in.


The box containing my new roller lifters...read top left message.



This is how they were inside the box...

[silver_bullet]

Somebody at customs a real dick, eh?

[malc]

Somebody at customs a real dick, eh?

The packaging just ain't up to a two week half way
around the world trip.

[Deaf Bob]

Got thrown around pretty good!

[malc]

Today while still waiting on my timing chain and valve springs I decided to push on with some cleaning....

Totally amazed at the amount of crud on my pistons.

Last time the heads were off was three years ago and then I only had to clean off a light dusting of carbon.

This amount must of raised my compression ratio.



I used oven cleaner spray and a brake cleaner rinse after a wire brush scrubbing.



All done, plus tapped out all the threads.

[Deaf Bob]

Check your valve stem seals while heads are off.
Looks like valve stem oil leaking..

[malc]

Check your valve stem seals while heads are off.
Looks like valve stem oil leaking..

Valve stem seals ordered.
I'll do them now as I am changing the valve springs.