Embarrassing trip today

I received my parts from Summit this morning and installed the new timing set and fancy one piece eccentric temporarily using a 5/16 drill bit in place of the drive pin. I have a new ARP cam bolt to assemble it all together - ARP says to use 50 lb ft for a 3/8 'Pro' series bolt. Anyone, is that a correct torque figure? I also need the harmonic balancer bolt torque - which is not ARP (I forgot to order one so it's the OEM Ford:mad:) My Ford tech info is packed for an eventual move, so I'm flying blind. Hopefully if the drive pin arrives in the mail tomorrow morning, I'll get the engine back together in a couple of hours afterwards.

Photos will follow - eventually:LOL:

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Originally Posted by IC2

For your reading (viewing?) enjoyment:whacked:
http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...Eccentric2.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...Eccentric1.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...imingchain.jpg

http://i70.photobucket.com/albums/i8...Eccentric4.jpg

Sorry if you have to click on the links - it ain't my fault (Brent? Bill??)

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In this sub forum the posting of pictures appears to be disabled. Even to me.

you should have the pin tomorrow .i just had order two of the arp bolts my self . the best i can do is get the tq specs tomorrow evening . 50 on a iron core cam is abit use thread locker on that bolt ..... a grade 8 .3/8 -16 is about 42 lb so the pro is past 180.000 so 50 about right .as for the damper would think 120 should work

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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

you should have the pin tomorrow .i just had order two of the arp bolts my self . the best i can do is get the tq specs tomorrow evening . 50 on a iron core cam is abit use thread locker on that bolt ..... a grade 8 .3/8 -16 is about 42 lb so the pro is past 180.000 so 50 about right .as for the damper would think 120 should work

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Thanks Pat - and the cam is a roller and steel so 40-50 on the Pro bolt should work then. And that 5/8-18, 120# does sound reasonable for what I recall but CRS has taken over lots of stuff:CRY:

did you get the pin i mailed you?

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Originally Posted by pat mccarthy

did you get the pin i mailed you?

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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:CRY::CRY: (now I'm starting to understand why the USPS has lost several billion dollars so far this year:mad:)

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Originally Posted by IC2

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

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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:(

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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:(

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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:LOL:. 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:o

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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:o

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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:HMMM: was going for a old drill:D

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 them:eek::LOL:Who 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:HMMM: