Cam install...Umm, what's this piece of metal my pen magnet pulled out?
07-15-2004, 02:47 PM
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Cam install...Umm, what's this piece of metal my pen magnet pulled out? Doing the cam install, following the ls1howto.com instructions to the letter. I get the pen magnets in the pushrod holes, spin the cam, all seems good except for one still clicking. So I check them all, pulling each pen magnet out to make sure it's on the lifter. One of them doesn't feel like it is, so I pull it out and there is a needle bearing on the magnet. I extend it and put it back in, and it doesn't seem to "grab" anything, so I pull it back out and look in the pushrod hole. There's a small, circular, golden disk, about the size of the pushrod hole sitting in the hole sideways now. WTF is this? 
07-15-2004, 03:10 PM
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Pics... excuse the blurriness, it's the cylinder under the windshield and the camera has to be held close.
Why would I need to get new rockers too?
Why would I need to get new rockers too?
07-15-2004, 03:17 PM
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Originally Posted by v8maro
Sounds like the needle bearing is from your rocker, but the other thing I have no clue, you sure the lifter didn't drop?
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If the lifter didn't drop I would keep putting that pen magnet down there and see if I could fish anything else out. Be careful that the magnet part doesnt come off the pen magnet, or else you might have to pull the head.
07-15-2004, 03:31 PM
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Originally Posted by v8maro
If the lifter didn't drop I would keep putting that pen magnet down there and see if I could fish anything else out. Be careful that the magnet part doesnt come off the pen magnet, or else you might have to pull the head.
Will do. If I have to pull the head, I'm waiting for the AFR 225's. 
07-15-2004, 04:23 PM
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Those pictures were so blurry all I could do is laugh and think of those crappy UFO pictures...your pictures even had the little shiny flying thing in them. Sucks that you have to worry about more stuff while you are in there though...
