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10-25-2020, 04:37 PM | #21 | |
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10-25-2020, 06:20 PM | #22 | |
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Compression is low, about 85lbs. Probably due to extreme advance. bbrocksr, - since I am using a dial indicator on the valve head, in my way of thinking the lash is of no concern, as I am taking it out of the equation by measuring only valve movement. |
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10-26-2020, 02:01 AM | #23 |
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I assume that your working with a bolt on cam gear and not a press on?
If so, this is how you can time the cam. turn the engine, until the valve are both open, the same amount. You can do that with 2 indicators or, you can use a straight edge, across them, if the margins are the same (indicators preferred). Then, with the #1 piston at TDC, slide the cam gear into place, on the cam. If the holes line up, the cam will be set, at or very close to "split overlap" or the other term, is "straight up". If it doesn't line up, you'll have to off set it, to get the correct timing. Nothing new, I learned this from Chet Herbert (of roller cam fame), when I was very young.
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10-26-2020, 02:19 PM | #24 |
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I've never given mush thought to the 77B cam as it quite mild and doesn't offer much in performance. With todays prices I would think that spending 500$ bucks on a cam Assy, you might consider the application alittel better. The stock EB cam might work just as well, or a Max #1might give bette rpreformance. If you want a Rump- Rump cam just pull out the choke alittle bit and you have a free L-100
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10-27-2020, 07:50 AM | #26 |
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10-27-2020, 03:18 PM | #29 |
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10-27-2020, 06:37 PM | #30 |
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SOUNDS LIKE A GOOD PLAN. nOTHING VENTURED, NOTHING GAINED. Good luck.
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Re: Finally some Cam Degree Numbers - Now what?
Easiest thing at this point, at least in my mind, would be to replace the timing gear or try moving it a notch over and recheck the valve timing.
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10-28-2020, 12:28 PM | #32 |
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Back in the day whenyou had to buy your way out of a problem, we slotted the cam holes and used ster washers under the hold doew locking plate, Cams never moved.. Skipping a tooth is 16 degs I think.
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10-28-2020, 02:34 PM | #33 |
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10-28-2020, 07:33 PM | #34 |
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Depends "which" degrees you're all talking about. Crank versus cam . . .
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10-28-2020, 10:09 PM | #35 |
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10-29-2020, 08:12 AM | #36 |
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While one cam-gear tooth is approximately 8 degrees of cam timing, the crank turns at twice the speed, so it is 16 on the crank.
360 / 44 = 8.18 (cam gear has 44 teeth) 360 / 22 = 16.36 (crank gear has 22 teeth) So if you move the cam one tooth in either direction, you're changing the timing events on the cam by 16 crankshaft degrees (which is where all the timing numbers come from - a degree wheel on the crank). I kind of doubt that he needs to move it that much - he probably needs a "tweener" - something in the middle. So, I'd try a new cam gear first (to see if it was somehow indexed wrong on the bolt holes). If that doesn't work, then you either custom drill a cam gear (on a mill with the correct tooling), or you come up with a method of increasing the bolt hole size and using some "offset" cam bolt-bushing sleeves (like we used to do before we had adjustable timing chains on SBCs). Hope this makes sense . . . B&S Last edited by Bored&Stroked; 10-29-2020 at 08:19 AM. |
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And the ster washers worked just fine.
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"Side distributor timing set for 1/2 increment advance, like every other flathead I've had which was correct. Net is again 25 degrees advance at idle. Vacuum brake is screwed all the way in, but will still advance to about 35 degrees with RPM." This is off quite a bit, sounds close to one tooth of the cam gear to me, maybe two. |
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Not 2.
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10-29-2020, 02:13 PM | #40 |
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go here
https://www.fordbarn.com/forum/showt...66#post1935866 Read the first post he states he checked cam gear and it was ok. Now current post is backtracking. Info has changed since then!!! R |
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