some of you may have seen my post a few weeks ago about how after going through the valves on the original 216 in my truck, i was happy to discover that everything was within factory specs.
this morning, something definately fell out of factory specs. near as i can tell the cam let go. i pulled the valve cover off and slowly rotated the engine via the crank tool i made to see what was going on. only one rocker arm moved. the strange part is that it was not at the front but in the middle of the engine. how is that possible?
i also removed the distributor cap and the rotor does not rotate so that seems to strongly indidcate that the cam is at least broken in front of that gear.
now i am faced with a dilema. this truck is not only a piece of rolling family history, it is also my daily driver that i use for my business. i want to keep it original (stock) but am not opposed to upgrading the internals of the engine if i have to break it all down (i.e. upgrade from babbitts and all that that intales).
anyone else done this? if so, how much did it roughly cost and what kind of down time should i expect?
the truck is a 1950 chevy 3/4 ton.
