cam dowel pin question 2
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Racer
Joined: Feb 2002
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From: Fraser MI
cam dowel pin question 2
some of you must only look at new topics...I have more questions and I posted them in this old topic:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=355422
Basically, I can't get the old pin out of the cam, I just spent about 3 hours fighting with it, and basically only managed to partially mangle the old pin :mad
so how have people gotten the old pin out? I tried to heat the cam with a torch, and pull it out, that didn't work at all...can I drill it out without wrecking the cam? I want a hot cam...just can't afford it yet...
does the old dowel pin need to come out at all? is it the only thing that drives the new opti?
ahhh....I can't wait to be done working on the car and just drive it again ;) ;)
thanks in advance for the help :cheers: :cheers:
http://forums.corvetteforum.com/zerothread?id=355422
Basically, I can't get the old pin out of the cam, I just spent about 3 hours fighting with it, and basically only managed to partially mangle the old pin :mad
so how have people gotten the old pin out? I tried to heat the cam with a torch, and pull it out, that didn't work at all...can I drill it out without wrecking the cam? I want a hot cam...just can't afford it yet...
does the old dowel pin need to come out at all? is it the only thing that drives the new opti?
ahhh....I can't wait to be done working on the car and just drive it again ;) ;)
thanks in advance for the help :cheers: :cheers:
Former Vendor
Joined: Jun 2001
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From: St Marys PA
Re: cam dowel pin question 2 (konroh)
ahhh....I can't wait to be done working on the car and just drive it again ;) ;)
thanks in advance for the help :cheers: :cheers:
thanks in advance for the help :cheers: :cheers:
I could have given you the one that came in my 219 cam. I just in the past month hacked it off after finding out it chewed a hole throught my timing cover. Lingenfelter sent me the 219 for the opti instead of the short pin.
I tried to pull it out, but had no luck, so I wacked it off with a dremel tool.
Good luck. Hang in there. :cheers:
Drifting
Joined: Jun 1999
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From: Garden Grove CA
Re: cam dowel pin question 2 (konroh)
You will hate me for saying this, but you need to remove the cam so that you can really heat it up. I've noticed a bit of varience in the pin hole, my HotCam actually had a bigger hole than the stock cam - caused me some tuning grief with weird timing until I tore it apart and saw that the pin was working its way back into the cam (and barely driving the opti off the chamfered edge). Seeing that I ended up knurling the pin before installation and using "Rock Set" (machinists glue, 5,000 lb surface tension). I pity anyone in the future that tries to remove the pin off my cam.
Thomas
Thomas
