cam cap bolts...

have some stripped cam cap bolts and tapped them out to M8. the bolts are shouldered and are tight in the cap. since i cant use the knock pins but there is 0 play between the bold and cap. opinions if this will suffice on cap alignment.

If there truly is o.ooo inches play, personally, I would use all new cam bushings and break-in lube.

New, new, new... makes it all work wonderful :laugh:

Good luck.

thanks for that...i was expecting a tidal wave of HELL NO's.

Randal, Unless you've wear in cam bearings, and indeed caps are tight to new bolts, I would simply place strands of plasti-gauge under cams at bearings, torque/remove & measure. any miss-alignment of caps will show as tight areas if diffence is gross. if within spec. run a couple of minutes and re-inspect bearings at caps. Cam bearings are pretty forgiving, I guess thats why there's only 1 size. Heads & towers were line bored at manufacture, thus caps aren't avail. seperate. however, I've seen many cracked caps swappped w/out incident. hope this helps. G

I did the same thing this past spring and ran all summer with no problems.
Tom

Thanks for the info guys...this is my first "top end" job and i want to be confident in the work i'm doing.