Cam degreeing help me understand!

yellow rose said
I agree. At the very least he needs to take the guts out of a hydraulic lifter and use a pushrod in it to degree the cam. Or a solid lifter.

If the OP doesn’t have a hydraulic lifter to gut, he can PM me and I’ll send him one and a pushrod so he will have it if he needs it.

I have a whole set of used hydraulic lifters I kept for that purpose. Lol my plan was to gut one filling it full of washers and weld a old pushrod in it. But I kinda like the wood dowel idea now. I may try both.