| Kettle Custodian (pot stirrer) Joined: Feb 2004 Posts: 29,875 | If you're using a double-row high performance timing chain, it's a good idea to install a nylon thrust button that keeps the cam from walking back and forth in the block. That causes ignition timing variations. Regular flat-link timing chains are stiff enough to get by without using thrust control. I like to braze a flat washer to the outside of the timing cover on race engines to reinforce the cover where the thrust button contacts it. Jerry
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