Hey everyone,
I'm depressed. My engine rebuild was coming along slowly until last
night. Now it's come to a complete halt. I put the camshaft in, put
the keeper plate in place and bolted it down. The camshaft is 100%
immobile! I loosened the keeper bolts and the camshaft spins fine. I
torque the bolts in and it is seized.
I tried flipping the keeper and it is still stuck. I ground the paint
off the front plate and put the keeper back on and it is still stuck.
My feeling the keeper is being skewed as I torque it, but I can't get a
feeler gauge under it anywhere. I'm stumped. Can I just use red
locktite and bolt the keeper with 5ft-lb of torque? I'm very
uncomfortable with this thought.
Any guesses as to what I've done? The camshaft is new (to me). It's a
Piper270 from BPNW. The keeper and front plate are the originals from
my car. I don't have the original camshaft, I had to send it to BPNW
for the $120USD core charge!
Rob in Ottawa
74.5 TR6 CF28217UO (rebuilding my engine to be seized from day 1???)
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