Yall, this is cool stuff. This is the type of support we Mopar guys need. Please visit Matt's Ebay store here:
Badvert65's Ebay Store
Our good buddy,
@Badvert65 is doing the Slant 6 Mopar community a great service by offering some pretty cool and innovative parts for our slant sixes. He sent me just such a product to try and I thought I would give a quick review here. Matt, (
@Badvert65) knew I was planning on trying to run a gear drive on my current slant 6 build, so he knew I would need to control camshaft walk. He has come up with these super cool camshaft buttons made from Delrin that simply slip right over the camshaft gear retaining bolt. It comes extra long. What you do is trim it to fit so there is zero clearance between the tip of the button and the cover, with no gasket. Gaskets are generally in the .020" range and once the gasket is installed, the fit is just right. I WAS going to have to get the camshaft drilled for the big block three bolt pattern in order to use a big block camshaft button, but now, thanks to Matt, I do not have to do that. Here are a few pictures to show how it fits.
@Rat Bastid
Here is the camshaft button from the side.
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Here it is from the back side where it fits over the 5/8" bolt head.
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This is how it fits on the bolt. It has not been trimmed here.
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Finally, after trimming to fit the inside of the cover flush without the timing cover gasket.
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