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Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes! Denny Graham #1135181 11/20/2015 4:17 AM
Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,300 Enid Okla G Greg_H 'Bolter
Greg_H 'Bolter G Joined: Aug 2001 Posts: 1,300 Enid Okla	I e-mailed Denny a page from a 79 Iskenderian Cam catalog and it has a page showing both the convex lifter face and the 1 degree taper on the lobes to make the lifters spin. They exaggerate it in the drawings but actually give the 1 degree offset/convex,

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Subject	Posted By	Posted
Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/18/2015 12:38 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	crenwelge	11/19/2015 5:48 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/19/2015 10:17 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Hotrod Lincoln	11/20/2015 1:15 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/20/2015 2:15 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Hotrod Lincoln	11/20/2015 2:25 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	52Carl	11/20/2015 3:19 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Hotrod Lincoln	11/20/2015 3:23 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	tclederman	11/20/2015 4:04 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Greg_H	11/20/2015 4:17 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	crenwelge	11/20/2015 4:34 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Mike B	11/20/2015 4:56 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	'54 3600	11/20/2015 1:56 PM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	panic	11/20/2015 7:00 PM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	BDammers47	11/20/2015 9:03 PM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	panic	11/21/2015 12:11 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/21/2015 2:17 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/22/2015 10:41 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Hotrod Lincoln	11/23/2015 2:09 AM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/22/2015 1:14 PM
Re: Talkin' Tappets and their Cam Lobes!	Denny Graham	11/23/2015 2:23 AM

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