If you do the cam, I'd take extra time to inspect the cam bearings as now is the time. I doubt they are bad with those pressure readings. Those are close to what my 4.0L carries with an HV pump and 10k on it! -- Mark Price Morgantown, WV 1969 AMC Rambler, 4.0L, EFI, T-5 " I was different before people dared to be different" -------------- Original message ---------------------- From: "Andrew Blomer" <lotharamc@xxxxxxxxxxx> > I see the second subject I listed about a new cam came in first. It doesn't > make much sense the way it is. > > The engine was running in the car a month ago. I had a headgasket blow, and > it was making noise at startup. So I decided to take it out, and freshen it > up. > > The engine origianlly came from an Ambassador parts car that had "68k" miles > on it. I don't know for sure though. I put about another 10K on it. I didn't > find anything to lead me to believe otherwise. It could be that the new > lifters are just bad. However, like you said it doesn't matter if they are > new or not, if they arn't rotating, the cam will be gone soon enough. > > I don't want to replace a cam, and still have this problem when I get it > going again. If it does, there will be a 66 Cross Country for sale fairly > soon. > > _________________________________________________________________ > Find a local pizza place, movie theater, and more?.then map the best route! > http://maps.live.com/default.aspx?v=2&ss=yp.bars~yp.pizza~yp.movie%20theater&cp= > 42.358996~-71.056691&style=r&lvl=13&tilt=-90&dir=0&alt=-1000&scene=950607&encTyp > e=1&FORM=MGAC01 > -------------- next part -------------- An embedded message was scrubbed... From: "Andrew Blomer" <lotharamc@xxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: Re: [Amc-list] noisy after rebuild Date: Thu, 30 Aug 2007 16:33:52 +0000 Size: 646 Url: http://www.amc-list.com/pipermail/amc-list/attachments/20070830/d3974755/attachment.eml
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