Thread: Cam clean-up?
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Old 04-03-2021, 04:34 PM   #8
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Default Re: Cam clean-up?

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Originally Posted by tubman View Post
I'm in "Ol' Ron"'s camp. The guys that are doing this for a living just don't understand us "old putzers". I'm more interested in whether this would succeed than the next Bonneville record. And then there's the financial aspect he mentioned as well.

I say "go for it"!

I too would give it a whirl. Only, I would put a couple magnets in the pan just in case. But back in the '80's when Chevies were eating camshafts for breakfast, lunch and dinner I replaced a bunch of them and never worried about the resulting metal in the pan. It didn't seem to hurt anything. Maybe the filters caught it. Often times a cam would have two flat lobes and more were half gone, plus the metal from lifter faces. That is a lot of ground up iron in an engine! Yet they survived and the customer drove away happy. Never had anyone come back with a shot engine.
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