Recent content by StringSlasher

Thanks for the help @73FJ40 and @Steamer

Updating this thread... After a week of searching for an affordable replacement cam or someone willing to add a few missing oil-path holes to the cam I recently purchased, I decided to get out the old original beat-up cam and do some experimenting. I took a garden-variety center punch and...

Got the camshaft at JT Outfitters in Mid-January but everything shows up in a RockAuto box.

Those bearing journals are hardened and I’m not qualified to run a few holes through them but if I were to find someone with the ways and means I don’t suppose a set of extra holes are going to hurt anything. It’s either that or find a guy with the opposite problem and arrange a trade. Advice...

Yep, holes on the third journal bearing instead of the second…

Thanks for the reply @73FJ40. I already have the radiator out, harmonic balancer removed, and timing gear cover off and I'll pull the camshaft tomorrow. (Good to see that the timing gears had some oil on them from the oiler post.) Amazing how much easier things come apart when they have been...

'72 FJ40: ongoing F-engine, frame off rebuild After re-building the engine in my 72 FJ40 that had been sitting around for the last thirty years, I don't have any oil making it up to the top of the cylinder head where the valves and rockers live. I have a 9/72 FJ40, or more specifically, early...