Camshaft install tips and tricks

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Just a note to make you aware of the loading between the camshaft lobe and lifter crown. That pencil-point of contact, if carried out to a square inch, would be somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH.
 
Just a note to make you aware of the loading between the camshaft lobe and lifter crown. That pencil-point of contact, if carried out to a square inch, would be somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH.
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As new innovations in flat tappet technology show up, they will be addressed here. One such newbie on the scene is the lifter bore grooving tool that allows pressurized oil from the lifter galley to be squirted directly onto the cam lobe/lifter interface.
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http://www.compcams.com/products/335-353.pdf
  
  
 
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