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| | | | Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 399 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Aug 2004 Posts: 399 | I yust checked (you never now)the new reground cam I got today for my 261.
First i noticed differences on the surface of lobe #2 and #10.
It looks like they are not phosphate treated.
Then I saw that they have a totally different grind. They are much taller than
the rest.
Lobe #2 and #11 are 1.625 inch while the rest is 1.544 inch!
It looks to me like that they added some material on those two lobes and than
forgot to regrind and treat them.
AAARGH! :mad: Things like this (bad quality management, lousy end controll) seems to happen more frequently in the last 2 years.
Somehow I have the feeling, that by doing everything for the shareholder (wich often means firing employes) they forget do do something for the customer.
In this case the small company that did the cam and the other one that sold it to me (it`s hard to resist vendor bashing here) are not on the stock market of course but I`m just tired with every package I recive I have to do phone calls, send mails and deflective or wrong parts back and forth and have a big time to finaly get what I paid for.
Living in Germany makes it even harder with all those parts from the US, horrible shipping prices ,impot taxes and more.
All that almost doubles the price for every part you buy.
Sorry but I had to relife some steam. :rolleyes: | | | | | Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 358 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jul 2002 Posts: 358 | That sucks, man.
Good thing you measured. | | | | | Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Jan 2006 Posts: 586 | Hey Stovebold,Do you have any recoarse with the supplier?Years ago I purchased a 300HP cam for a 327 Chevy new from the dealer.Installed it and the motor didn't run.It would fire ok on #1 only.After a long song and dance we found out the cam was a marine cam for a left turning engine mis-packaged.The dealer ate some of my labor to keep me happy.Good Luck.
Wanted Good Woman:
Must be able to cook , clean , sew , tune engines and polish trucks. Must have old Stovebolt and garage. Please send picture of old Stovebolt and garage.
| | | | | Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 Shop Shark | | Shop Shark Joined: Oct 2005 Posts: 688 | Hang in there, and shake off your day, then get a good night sleep then; go and raise Cain with your Supplier.  This could be a communication/miss package issue. I bet the supplier will help you out. Cliff59 | | |
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