[DeTomaso] Distrubutor Gear Chewed Up

[Thomas Tornblom]

Asa Jay Laughton wrote:
> You know Thomas,  I installed a Crane hydraulic roller cam in my last 
> 351c rebuild, and I didn't have any problems at all.  Of course, I'm 
> going back over my notes and photos, and I do not believe I used an ARP 
> bolt for it.  It looks like I used the stock bolt that came off the 
> original cam and it worked just fine.  I also used a Pete Jackson gear 
> drive for the timing set.
> 
> So would the stock bolt have worked?  I got confused somewhere in all 
> the emails.

My stock bolt gives me about 1/4 turn to torque it down after touching 
the stock washer, but before having the non-threaded part of the shank 
run into the threads in the cam. If you install the eccentric, you will 
probably get a half to a full turn extra. That is too little margin for 
my taste.

> 
> Asa Jay

Cheers,
Thomas