camshaft bolts

[rusty]

My 360 does not have the bolt with the hole in it for oiling the timing chain,can a guy just leave the bolt out and run with two? no one in my area has it and said no longer able to order!

 

[Marcohotrod]

u can leave it out and just run 3, mopar did that in later years. or do what I did, drill a hole in a bolt

 

[krazykuda]

Or drill the bottom hole on the thrust plate larger that the anti-rotational tab goes into. Then re-bend the rotational tab so the bolt can go through the hole also. That way you can get three bolts in and run the drip tab.

If not, I they used to make them without the drip tab and the three bolts for the thrust plate, and left the top oil hole with no bolt. The oil slinger will still throw some oil on the chain.


I think it's more important to keep the oil hole open...

 

[rusty]

I chucked one of the three bolts up in my lathe and drilled it!