Brad,
Turning the journals down is an easy process. The expensive, & tricky
part is putting the oil scroll into the journal, so oil is spread across
the face of the bearing. Let me check, I may still have a small journal
cam you could use...
I'm beyond busy this next week or two, but if you can give me a few days,
I think I can help.
Tom
Original Message:
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From: Brad Kahler brad.kahler@141.com
Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2003 06:20:07 -0600
To: fot@autox.team.net
Subject: grinding cam journals
Amici,
While looking through our pile of good cam cores for Susan's spitfire we
have found we have a lot of the large journal cams that were used in the
mk1/2 and 1500 spitfires.
I know it is technically feasible to turn the journals down. We have a
Paeco cam in the box that was originally a mk1 cam that has had the
journals turned to match the small journal cam. However since its a Paeco
cam we aren't going to use it.
Susan talked with Iskey yesterday and they said they could do it but
apparently they have had very few requests to do so.
Myself, I can't see any technical reason not to turn cam journals down.
However I'd feel more comfortable doing so knowing that others have done it
or would recommend it.
Thanks
Brad
1957 TR3 vintage racer
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