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1967 GMC 9500 Fire Ladder Truck "The Flag Pole" In the Stovebolt Gallery '46 2-Ton grain truck | '50 2-ton flatbed | '54 Pontiac Straight Eight | '54 Plymouth Belvidere | '70 American LaFrance pumper fire truck | '76 Triumph TR-6 Of all the things I've lost in my life, I miss my mind the most!
As I recall, the biggest gripe about the 265s I worked on was pistons- - - -if an engine didn't have two or three cracked piston skirts down by the Invar expansion control strut, it was a rare bird! Those cracked pistons clucked like a mama hen with a new brood of chicks! Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
Guy I was working for as a teen rebuilt a 265 for a customer's '55 pick up, got it running and no oil to the L.H. (as I recall) lifters / rockers. He called an old machinist friend who told him " look at the old cam, should have a flat on rear brg journal, take the new cam to the grinder & grind a flat on the the rear onto the new cam to match the o.e. one." Seems early production V8 didn't have a drilled passage to feed oil the lifters on that bank, oil flowed via the cam flat. I've never seen such a thing again.
BC 1960 Chevy C10 driver 261 T5 4.10 dana 44 power loc 1949 GMC 250 project in waiting 1960 C60 pasture art Retired GM dealer tech. 1980 - 2022
The flat spot was on the distributor housing, not the cam. If the distributor got clocked wrong and the wires in the cap got walked around a couple of towers to compensate, oil to the passenger's side lifter oil gallery got shut off. Later distributors had a full circle groove instead of a flat. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
That's a new one on me-- - - -I've seen several of the flat-spot distributors. They were probably used together to oil one of the lifter galleries. Jerry
"It is better to be silent and be thought a fool than to speak and eliminate all doubt!" - Abraham Lincoln Cringe and wail in fear, Eloi- - - - -we Morlocks are on the hunt! There is nothing noble in being superior to your fellow man; true nobility is being superior to your former self. - Ernest Hemingway Love your enemies and drive 'em nuts!
~ Victor 1941 3/4-Ton Pickup (in process). Read about it in the DITY Gallery 1955 Grumman Kurbside "Doughboy" 235/3 on tree w/ OD 1957 3100 - moved on 1959 C4500 Short Bus "Magic Bus" - moved on 1959 G3800 1 Ton Dually "Chief" - moved on 1958 C4400 Viking "Thor" ~ moved on to fellow Bolter
