1969 Daily Driver
Let talk about the importance of degreeing in your camshaft for a second. I talk to people everyday that did not degree in their cam or they think degreeing in a cam is as simple as lining up the dots. We all know, people that is following this thread, that I am in the middle of building a slant six "My first". I bought an engine rebuild kit and it came with a stock style timing gears set with no adjustment at all. Lucky enough for me when I degreed it in it was 1 degree advanced 105 ICL insted of 106 ICL. Then as I have been lurking around the net I see that a double roller is out there so I buy one and get it here. Well I lined up dotes and then pulled up the stool to degree this new set up in not knowing this would be a day ender, and the next week ender. So after the first time I get 116 ICL??? WTF. Has to be a mistake so I completely tear down the set up and try again boom same number 116 ICL. Well this presents a problem because the bottom adjustment only has 8 degrees of advance/retard. So I go to the parts store, and just for fun now, I buy a different timing set and this one will tell me what set up is wrong, stock or double roller. Well that one comes in at 106 ICL. Well the stock chains so far are checking out good or both of the have the exact amount of advance in them. Well this presents a problem, since I do work for crower out comes the camshaft and lets make sure it was made correctly. The check out was perfect so now this leads me to the new high dollar timing set. I then bring in the crank and the lower timing gears to crower to have them checked, and everything is perfect. Hmmm WTF well that leaves only one thing the cam sprocket and guess what, yes that was drilled wrong and retarded the cam my 10 degrees and that is the same amount I kept getting. Now how do we fix this well simple I counted the teeth on the sprocket then divided that by 360 degrees. That gives me 13.88 degrees per a link. So I advanced the cam by one link then used the lower sprocket 4 degree retard that should get me close. First shot and nailed what I was looking for. Just slightly over 106 ICL, that is close enough for me. I believe that I am almost done with mock up and will be building an engine this weekend. Goooooooo me. Also while I was lurking around the net I cam across this to oil the timing chain. Pic is below.
Let talk about the importance of degreeing in your camshaft for a second. I talk to people everyday that did not degree in their cam or they think degreeing in a cam is as simple as lining up the dots. We all know, people that is following this thread, that I am in the middle of building a slant six "My first". I bought an engine rebuild kit and it came with a stock style timing gears set with no adjustment at all. Lucky enough for me when I degreed it in it was 1 degree advanced 105 ICL insted of 106 ICL. Then as I have been lurking around the net I see that a double roller is out there so I buy one and get it here. Well I lined up dotes and then pulled up the stool to degree this new set up in not knowing this would be a day ender, and the next week ender. So after the first time I get 116 ICL??? WTF. Has to be a mistake so I completely tear down the set up and try again boom same number 116 ICL. Well this presents a problem because the bottom adjustment only has 8 degrees of advance/retard. So I go to the parts store, and just for fun now, I buy a different timing set and this one will tell me what set up is wrong, stock or double roller. Well that one comes in at 106 ICL. Well the stock chains so far are checking out good or both of the have the exact amount of advance in them. Well this presents a problem, since I do work for crower out comes the camshaft and lets make sure it was made correctly. The check out was perfect so now this leads me to the new high dollar timing set. I then bring in the crank and the lower timing gears to crower to have them checked, and everything is perfect. Hmmm WTF well that leaves only one thing the cam sprocket and guess what, yes that was drilled wrong and retarded the cam my 10 degrees and that is the same amount I kept getting. Now how do we fix this well simple I counted the teeth on the sprocket then divided that by 360 degrees. That gives me 13.88 degrees per a link. So I advanced the cam by one link then used the lower sprocket 4 degree retard that should get me close. First shot and nailed what I was looking for. Just slightly over 106 ICL, that is close enough for me. I believe that I am almost done with mock up and will be building an engine this weekend. Goooooooo me. Also while I was lurking around the net I cam across this to oil the timing chain. Pic is below.