Camshaft replacement

[Rookie Vette owner]

Hope everything goes well whether you rebuild or replace. I wanted to comment on one of the earlier inputs about "soaking" the lifters. I've done it in the past, but I ran into an article about two weeks ago in the November 2007 issue of Car Craft ("what's your problem" section pg. 66) that said that you can actually cause more problems if you soak/pump-up the new lifters during a rebuild. It puts too much oil in the lifter and can "lock" the piston and not allow it to bleed down sufficiently to close the valves or to be able to adjust the preload. Has anyone else ever seen or heard of this before?

 

[grumpyvette]

http://www.engineparts.com/motorhead/techstuff/stockcspecs/chevrolet.html

http://www.geocities.com/MotorCity/Downs/3000/cmspec.html

http://www.nastyz28.com/sbchevy/sbccams.html

 

[speedmaster4]

Hope everything goes well whether you rebuild or replace. I wanted to comment on one of the earlier inputs about "soaking" the lifters. I've done it in the past, but I ran into an article about two weeks ago in the November 2007 issue of Car Craft ("what's your problem" section pg. 66) that said that you can actually cause more problems if you soak/pump-up the new lifters during a rebuild. It puts too much oil in the lifter and can "lock" the piston and not allow it to bleed down sufficiently to close the valves or to be able to adjust the preload. Has anyone else ever seen or heard of this before?

Car Craft should be ashamed, total B.S. , where do they find those ''writers'' ??

too many errors there to even begin to correct them..

i drop lifters in ''empty'' with ''molydenumdisulfide'' HP grease (assembly lube) on the bottoms...spin pushrod in fingertips while closing lash to ''o'' (an ''empty'' lifter is a bit less pronounced ''feel'' when '0'' is reached than a ''primed'' lifter, both ways work) and then add preload (''turns'' method ok, measuring clearance between lifter piston and its retainer with go/no-go feelers is best)...priming oil pump fills all lifters.

 

[CAJUN C4]

For those bucks, I'd learn how to do it.:L

A ZZ4 motor would be an ideal stock-like motor with a little more oomph. Make some friends who know how to do it.:cool

I Strongly Agree