Now that I'm done with degreeing the
cam, it's time to put the lock washer in place. This washer is designed
is to make sure the bolts DON'T come loose. If you notice at the top
bolt, the tab is slightly bent outwards. On the left bolt, the tab is
bent at a right angle to the gear face and the last bolt has the tab
bent all the way around the bolt. This is a great way of making sure
that bolts stay put.
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This is a shot of all the tabs bent
and finished. To bend the tabs, I used a hammer and 3/8" diameter
drive punch. This way you can get the tab right up next to the flats on
the bolt head insuring a good tight fit.
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Now it's time to check the fit of
timing cover and how much clearance we had between the two idler gears
and cover. Well I had a large gap between the cover and block (no surprise
there because if something were to fit right, I wouldn't know what to
do) so that meant that the idler gears were sticking out to far. The gap
was about 1/8" so I did some measuring and ground some off the back
of the axles of the two gears. You have to have at least 90% engagement
of these gears with the other gears so after some careful metal removal,
I had reached my limit. The gap was better but not gone so I had only
one choice as to where to make more clearance.
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Here you can see the grease that I put
on the ends of the two axels that transferred to the timing cover. This
is the place I had to remove more material to make enough clearance for
things to fit. I used a felt marker to put a red line around the grease area for reference and
got to work.
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