[Michael C Henry]

This all started Feb of 02.I removed the intake manifold and sent it to George Anderson for pressure testing and milling.Then I had it and the steel plate under it ceramic coated.When reassembleing it I managed to pull the center two rocker studs Heli-coils and all from both heads.I never suspected anything was wrong.The pulled studs were not evedent at the machine shop and upon reassembly when securing the rockers again that is when I fount that the studs were pulling and probably one of the original problems. I had to remove the heads again and have them repaired with screw in inserts.I'm out of sequence but bare with me.The valve adjustments Kept changing ,looser.I found two lifters that I couldn't remove.one on #1 and another on #7.I knew that I had a flat cam and mushroomed lifters.I Removed the radiator and all the shrouding shrouding first then radiator out the bottom,just to pull the cam.I found that very little of me fits into the nose hole ,I'm facing down and can't see or reach anything.I was worried about all that metal.so I removed the engine So I pulled the engine and had it gone through.All the metal had been caught in the filter,no other damage.While its apart I made some changes and it hasn't run since.If I have to remove the cam shaft the engine is comming out.I'm actually tired of working on it.all the while paying insurance and liescening. The stack of receipts large and minor expense are a sore subject..The be running by date keeps being pushed back and I'm being accused of wanting to never finish anything.Gas is so much more than when I stopped driving it.
The cam dowl fits the excentric and the camshaft.It's just the cam gear hole is way too large as if it was supposed to have a bushing.The previous cam drive had a stepped dowl and an offset bushing.I didn't have any of the other bushings so I elected to go with a new timing set.I'm tring to get a hole through the broken dowl pin .Then I'll try to wedgeing a screw into it, or pack it with grease and try to hydruallic it out, or lastly grind it up with a dremmel rotary files cut from the side and don't drill worth a crap.But I'm open to any ideas or suggestions.