Camshaft installation...eeek!/Lifter trouble!

[Scott Woebcke]

I'm having somebody install the bearings but I'm wondering about the degreeing of the cam. I read up on the process but am wondering the degree of difficulty of this procedure. How much does the degreeing tool cost. I'll be installing the Mopar 244 degree cam. Is there any other required parts I might need, I noticed Mopar sells a bushing and some other accesories. I already bought a key for the crank. Do I need anything else for the cam? Ah for the most worrysome thing...When I was removing the lifters I accidentally gouged the wall... I am wondering what I need to do to fix this problem. I honed it a little bit and it seemed to help. But is there a way to actually fix the wall which the lifter is housed in?

[Doctor Dodge (Doug Dutra)]

[DusterIdiot]

Degreeing the cam isn't too hard, but if you've never done it before, it's nice to have someone experienced walk you through it personally so you get it right on. I just bought a degree wheel at a local speed shop for $19.50 for a 9" wheel. The only problem I ran into was a friend's wheel had too small of a hole to accomodate that massive crank bolt the slant has (if it even came equipped with one). The one I bought luckily was wide enough I had to "bush" the bolt with a piece of conduit to get it to stay tight.

Doc may have a better recommendation about this, but I remember an initial "daily driver" A-body build up that Dan Stern wrote about some years back:

Super six setup (cast Iron)
Stiffer torsion bars (v-
MP "243" cam with the MP double roller chain and
advanced 4 degrees with the MP offset bushing kit.
Clean up the head and ports.

I was going to set my duster up this way until recently when I could get ahold of the 243 cam from my local dealership, so I had to pick another cam , a week later they called and said we can get your cam.... (after I already bought an erzatz cam).

good luck,

-DusterIdiot

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[DusterIdiot]

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[Chad]