Good times! Cam chain destruction

So the play's the thing........
Question..can you put the jugs from a 1979 shaft on a 1977 engine(and have it run,I mean I know you can,but can you) I will be using the 77 head with stock cams and chain

PLEASE tell me I can,its been a bad bad bad week

Thanks to all and to all a good night! :ohmy:

yessir.
straight swap.

leon

Now don't yank me,Its got road rash all over it.

Thanks ,much needed GOOD news :woohoo:

Stephen

make sure to count the cam gear teeth .
you might have to use the cams that go with the bottom end as the shafty motor has a good chance of being a mk11 engine with different amount of sprocket teeth.

take pics.

post them here :evil: !

leon

Hey there, I was just going to use the jugs from the 79 and a 78 head with stock cams.Bought a heavy duty cam chain and rivet link.(tsuekai)? Also going to re-ring the pistons from that 79 shaft and use those also and basically all the cam chain sprockets. Are those the ones your talking about.

I will post pics cause the head damage is impressive. Maby just for me cause I'm a cherry. :dry:

Thanks Leon

771000LTD wrote: Bought a heavy duty cam chain and rivet link.(tsuekai)?
I will post pics cause the head damage is impressive. Maby just for me cause I'm a cherry. :dry:

Thanks Leon

You either biought a heavy duty cam chain, or one with a rivet link. It can't be both.

alright so its continuous chain and I have a rivet link,thought it was heavy duty.

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Good Fortune!

771000LTD wrote: Hey there, I was just going to use the jugs from the 79 and a 78 head with stock cams.Bought a heavy duty cam chain and rivet link.(tsuekai)? Also going to re-ring the pistons from that 79 shaft and use those also and basically all the cam chain sprockets. Are those the ones your talking about.

I will post pics cause the head damage is impressive. Maby just for me cause I'm a cherry. :dry:

Thanks Leon

the cam sprockets are the ones i was referring to.
the gear in the center of the crank and the sprockets on the cams are the ones that need to be matching.
heads and cylinders swap no sweat.
all the idler gears are interchangeable,just look em over and use the best ones.

leon

Hi Patton, I bought these from Z1 .The chain is endless and knew I would have to break it and use the rivet link. Do you also agree with Leon that there shouldn't be a issue with using the 79 jugs. The jugs are black, can I touch up the paint with VT high temp paint?

Thanks,Stephen

Hello everyone,

1.going to start reassembling engine(top end).Should I be use some sort of greese on sleaves, pistons etc ?

2.Using the 79 st jugs which turned out to have been upgraded to .50 oversize. (0.020)? Any problem with using normal 77 head gasket.

3. Bought a head of e-bay (1978) and in came with bearings and caps. Since I'm using the cams from the 77 head should I also use the the bearings and caps from the 77 also ?

Thanks in advance,
stephen

771000LTD wrote: Hello everyone,

1.going to start reassembling engine(top end).Should I be use some sort of greese on sleaves, pistons etc ?

2.Using the 79 st jugs which turned out to have been upgraded to .50 oversize. (0.020)? Any problem with using normal 77 head gasket.

3. Bought a head of e-bay (1978) and in came with bearings and caps. Since I'm using the cams from the 77 head should I also use the the bearings and caps from the 77 also ?

Thanks in advance,
stephen

You can use the bearings if they're in better shape but use the caps from the new head.