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What you call "end caps" are the valve spring retainers. The 2 small items are locks or keepers. The thicker "rotater style" retainers you have will not work with your new springs. Retainers, locks, valves, and springs have to fit each other. No mix and match. If this is a stock cam you could...
I'm considering replacing the fiber board headliner in my '64 Belvedere wagon with this kit. (link below)
Has anyone here has done this, or know if new fiber board type is available somewhere?
Thanks, Jim
Headliner conversion
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All good advice,
make sure to have plenty of break in lube on the cam and lifters.
Use a known good carb so you are not fighting it at fire up.
Once it runs a few minutes start bumping the rpms up and down a little a few times.
Have a fan blowing at the radiator.
Like DVW said.
I agree on lots of timing. There is no load so detonation won't be an issue. Keeps the exhaust cooler. Especially if you have coated headers. Make sure the carb is full of fuel. If it doesn't have an electric pump? Fill the bowl(s) thru the vent with a squirt bottle. Make sure #1 rotor posistion...
I'll agree that some designs
leave one scratching their
heads for serviceabitity
issues. "What the hell were
they thinking?".
With hundreds of hours in
the drivers' seat of a CAD
station, I've witnessed first
hand, many, many,
questionable design quirks.
In the interest of releasing
future...