Try degreeing a camshaft with a .500"+ lift at the valve with a last word dial indicator. I'm debating between buying an indicator with a 2" stroke VS a 3" to use setting up the offset on my crankshaft grinder. Some of the cranks I work with have over a 4" stroke length, which requires offsetting the rotating heads more than 2 inches to get the rod journals to spin true. There's about a $75.00 difference in the cost of the dial indicators.
Jerry

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