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Originally Posted by leathermang
Why ?
Do you think I just imagined that question ?
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When you are measuring these cam lobes..
Can't you just cut a hole in sheet metal , split it at the hole , which was the size of the main cam shaft....and then put the two sides up against the side of a lobe and trace around it ?
Then measure on a table ?
If you make witness lines in two directions when drilling out the hole... you can use that to measure the height ... and you have the profile traced...
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No not easily partly 'cos you've got the camshaft bearing bits in the way - it would be a real pain trying to get metal to reach up against the side of a cam lobe - and partly because the tips of the lobe are narrower than they are on the shaft. They taper...
I'll stick with the tried and tested line up the teeth on a cog and measure with a DTI method I used last year.
As for the first comment - did you imagine the question or have you read something I haven't somewhere? I did the 2mm lift method as per the FSM to check if my new timing chain was good - paranoid eh? - and it was at (drum roll please) zero degrees.