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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

did you get the pin i mailed you?

No joy yet - but tomorrow's another day.

This is, as a home owner, a time of the year I don't lack for things to do - like raking @#$%^& acorns, then in two-three weeks, the @#$% leaves.

Everything is clean and freshly painted and the gaskets are Gaskacinched to the timing cover, just waiting. And that stuff is a waste of $$ as it's only repackaged flammable contact cement.

Still no joy brought by the mail person - so off to find a piece of 5/16" drill rod (now I'm starting to understand why the USPS has lost several billion dollars so far this year)

Originally Posted by IC2

Still no joy brought by the mail person - so off to find a piece of 5/16" drill rod (now I'm starting to understand why the USPS has lost several billion dollars so far this year)

sorry and i did send it out to just take a cheap drill and chop it down .it needs to be about 1.340 long i just did one the pins are not very hard the long one is 1.375 and did hang out .035 so i face it on the valve grinder stem grinder side.OH .. but i not using a eccertric ...so i been no help to you at all

Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

sorry and i did send it out to just take a cheap drill and chop it down .it needs to be about 1.340 long i just did one the pins are not very hard the long one is 1.375 and did hang out .035 so i face it on the valve grinder stem grinder side.OH .. but i not using a eccertric ...so i been no help to you at all

Pat - not a problem. I'll just put it away for the next motor. Since it was raining today, I did a bunch of other things. And yeah, after I posted the last, I did cut down a new 5/15 drill that I had - wasn't thinking - drill rod = drill bits. Interesting - that 'E' camshaft needed a 1.5" pin to instead of the 1.375 to bottom and not miss the eccentric.

Good news and info for us SBF guy's .

Pat Mc - the dowel drive pin just arrived about 10 minutes ago.
Six freaking days since you mailed it!!!
I had no idea that Michigan was somewhere outside of the solar system - and I'm originally from Michigan.

Thanks for sending it off to me - I'm sure it will get used eventually

Originally Posted by IC2

Pat Mc - the dowel drive pin just arrived about 10 minutes ago.
Six freaking days since you mailed it!!!
I had no idea that Michigan was somewhere outside of the solar system - and I'm originally from Michigan.

Thanks for sending it off to me - I'm sure it will get used eventually

that pin is the long of the two every one sends out with new cams. every one is pbm .erson. howard s .well Hell they should send out 3 pins as the long one i sent you is no good... with the solid eccentric just fond that out on this 289 roller engine over the week end to short . just order a longer pin 1.500 was going for a old drill

Since the pony express took so long and a drill bit was sacrificed for the good of all, I even had some time to crawl underside to do some new car tightening and other odds and ends - decided I really didn't like how I had run the gas line - so off to Summit for some more AN fittings - I already have enough3/8" SS and -6 braided line.

Pat - I just found that McMaster Carr has 5/16x1.500 dowel pins @25 for~$8.00 or so and are 20,000 pound alloy steel. Next order there, I'll get a box if for no other reason - just to have themWho knows, maybe I can use them in a slingshot to assassinate my excess squirrel population

Now, if we could just convince Ford to supply dowels with their camshafts