Glenn Martin wrote: >Mark L: are you going to inspect yours to see if this has any relation to >the new fifth bearing?
No, I'm not real worried about that. I test assembled my cam and crank in the case and spun them together to make sure there were no problems. I wasn't specifically looking for an off-center cam gear (which sounds like what Mark Jones has), but it would've shown up there. I was just trying to make sure I could assemble the cam and crank and get the timing marks lined up properly. With the fifth bearing, you don't have that hole to look through to see the marks (at least not on WW's fifth bearing), so I was making sure I could get them to jive, and then reproduce it "for real" at final assembly by marking them somewhere that I COULD see. It turned out that it wasn't that tough after all though. This episode with Mark's cam gear had me a little worried, but now that I've seen it, and with the info that one side is untouched, I'm no longer concerned at all that the Corvair has any kind of inherent cam gear problem. Sounds like Clark's may have a quality problem with their "Failsafe" mating process though. I can't imagine how you could turn a gear out of round with respect to the center hole, unless it was made on a mill instead of on a lathe, but them I'm no machinist either. Sounds like it may be out of round though. Mark Langford, Huntsville, AL mail: N56ML "at" hiwaay.net website: www.N56ML.com
