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Old May 1, 2008 | 03:00 PM
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Got the steering rack out of the way, the balancer off and the cover pulled last night. I think ill be pulling the cam out tonight.....so far so good!
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Old May 2, 2008 | 09:36 AM
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Cam is in! Got the dots lined up on the first try..damn im good!

I took a step back and looked at all the crap i took out of this car scattered around the garage and got that >what the hell was i thinking< feeling. Slowly but surely its goin back together
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Old May 2, 2008 | 09:43 AM
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great work. keep it up man. It will probably help to get a hand with getting the steering rack back in and the radiator.
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Old May 2, 2008 | 04:22 PM
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Thanks! Cant wait to fire this thing up in a day or so! Assuming everything is installed correctly it should start and the first turn of the key...right?
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Old May 2, 2008 | 04:25 PM
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Yep, its amazing how quick they start unlike the older cars.
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Old May 2, 2008 | 06:45 PM
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Heres a FUNNY FRIDAY STORY!

Today,, I had some free time during lunch and I pulled up the forum and saw this post. Cool,,,Novakain1970 is doing the same project that I'm doing. I reading down the post and saw BLOWNBLUEZ06 post.

Holy Crap! I was sitting there at work with KNOTS on my stomach! I thought I was going to puke I couldn't for the life of me remember if I checked that or not. I was ready to just shut down and go home and check! I figured that I would visit Murphy and his school of laws and it would be in BSS ACKWARDS!

All day I stressed over it. I already started doing the un-install in my head.

Well,,,I got home and ran right to the car and checked! Dam-it, its in there DEEEEEEEP So I viewed it from under the car and WHEW! All is good in HP TOWN!

SO,,,,,, BLOWNBLUEZ06 ,,,,,,THANK YOU very much for that very excellent info!

Bill C
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Old May 3, 2008 | 02:40 AM
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Wow! After reading this thread I feel a lot better about paying a reputable shop to do my cam install & tune. Novakain1970, my hats off to ya. Good luck on the install.
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Old May 3, 2008 | 10:34 AM
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Originally Posted by Bill Curlee
Heres a FUNNY FRIDAY STORY!

Today,, I had some free time during lunch and I pulled up the forum and saw this post. Cool,,,Novakain1970 is doing the same project that I'm doing. I reading down the post and saw BLOWNBLUEZ06 post.

Holy Crap! I was sitting there at work with KNOTS on my stomach! I thought I was going to puke I couldn't for the life of me remember if I checked that or not. I was ready to just shut down and go home and check! I figured that I would visit Murphy and his school of laws and it would be in BSS ACKWARDS!

All day I stressed over it. I already started doing the un-install in my head.

Well,,,I got home and ran right to the car and checked! Dam-it, its in there DEEEEEEEP So I viewed it from under the car and WHEW! All is good in HP TOWN!

SO,,,,,, BLOWNBLUEZ06 ,,,,,,THANK YOU very much for that very excellent info!

Bill C

Hehe I was worried about it too...same knots in my stomach. I had already installed the puller and the rack. I see that the gasket could go on flipped but its pretty difficuly to screw it up. I remember that I put the gasket on the timing cover first to make sure it lined up with the appropriate curves of the timing cover.
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Originally Posted by jpandes
Wow! After reading this thread I feel a lot better about paying a reputable shop to do my cam install & tune. Novakain1970, my hats off to ya. Good luck on the install.
Yea,,,,but there are times when those shops have issues also! Nope, for all the grease, little issues, and set backs, I still get tremendous satisfaction doing it all myself.

We did a cam install project once on ENGLANDGREENS car when he lived in CT. There were 4 of of turning wrenches and throwing parts. It went together pretty darn quick and we were very successful. Did it over a weekend.

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Old May 4, 2008 | 01:45 AM
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Default Its Alive!!!!!

The car fired up first turn of the key! Sounds great for a GM cam let me tell ya I plan on getting the car tuned/dynoed asap so ill let you know the power gains of the cam. Thanks everyone for your help, couldnt have done it without you
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