Timing Gear Drive
Ok, here's why my set was binding. The recess in the camplate is not cut deep enough. At this point it looks like it needs to be about .016" deeper but i want to estimate that in other ways. I'm basing that number on the difference between the stock retainer plate and the CAT thickness. My caliper's depth gauge is not quite wide enough to get a reliable measurement of the distance of the cam snout to thrust washer compared to cam snout to CAT plate. ( the cam binds up when the bolt is tightened and the camgear back face is jammed against the CAT plate recess, essentially squeezing the plate with both thrust faces on the cam) On the stock setup it LOOKS flush. BTW cam endplay with the stock eveything is about 0 but free enought to rotate easily, which doesn't sound right to me, I'd expect something more like.003-.007 or so, haven't located factory spec yet. I'm thinking the .016" plus whatever the endplay spec is should be how much to actually remove from the recess. Does that sound correct?
Was also working on the positive oiler for the gearset, pics and stuff later.
Ok, here's why my set was binding. The recess in the camplate is not cut deep enough. At this point it looks like it needs to be about .016" deeper but i want to estimate that in other ways. I'm basing that number on the difference between the stock retainer plate and the CAT thickness. My caliper's depth gauge is not quite wide enough to get a reliable measurement of the distance of the cam snout to thrust washer compared to cam snout to CAT plate. ( the cam binds up when the bolt is tightened and the camgear back face is jammed against the CAT plate recess, essentially squeezing the plate with both thrust faces on the cam) On the stock setup it LOOKS flush. BTW cam endplay with the stock eveything is about 0 but free enought to rotate easily, which doesn't sound right to me, I'd expect something more like.003-.007 or so, haven't located factory spec yet. I'm thinking the .016" plus whatever the endplay spec is should be how much to actually remove from the recess. Does that sound correct?
Was also working on the positive oiler for the gearset, pics and stuff later.