1968 Camaro "Badmotorfinger" v2.2

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

Not sure it will be enough. There is a special tool for measuring the proper depth. I like to do things once if possible. A local machine shop better have one.

Doing things once is great.. if you can pull it off


So... we've been thinking on this all day... and one other thing that we changed when putting it back together was a higher volume oil pump. We put a Melling 10555 pump in place of the previous OEM replacement M-55 pump. This constitutes a 25% increase over OEM.

Could be the culprit, or at least contributory?

[Vegas69]

That certainly may have accelerated the failure. It would've died either way. Just a few miles down the road. Set it back up right and you should be good to go until you put in your LSX.

One other thing that can cause the gear failure is cam walk. Is there a cam button?

[Flash68]

Originally Posted by Vegas69

That certainly may have accelerated the failure. It would've died either way. Just a few miles down the road. Set it back up right and you should be good to go until you put in your LSX.

One other thing that can cause the gear failure is cam walk. Is there a cam button?

Ha, I was spending quite a bit of time on LS1tech for a bit there, but now since getting this motor back together and driving a bit, I really love this thing for what it is. Modern tech is great and all, but old school original is..... well, there's just something about it.

And yes there is a cam button in it.

[Vegas69]

Just making sure Rich didn't forget a piece.

It's in there, use it up first.