More on the cam...
Years ago, a friend had a 47 Plym**th coupe with a
235 engine swapped into it. One day the engine
locked up, so he though it had thrown a rod or
something. He wound up putting a 289 engine in the
car, and gave me the 235. I took it apart, the
timing gear had stripped (it was a car engine with
the fiber gear), and a connecting rod hit the cam
and locked up the engine. THere are flats cast into
the camshaft...they are there to clear the rods...so
if the cam/crank are in the wrong position, the cam
will hit the rods and not come out. Somethign else
to ponder!
Jim F
59s in AZ
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