1953 Case VAC camshaft

Bill_Bier

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I have a 1953 case

The front of the camshaft broke. I dropped the pan, took off the gear cover, took off the rocker arm, and took off the cam retaining screws in front.

The Cam will only slide forward about an inch. I can't figure out what is holding it up. Any ideas?

Will the service manual give me a high degree of detail as to how to do this? I am especially concerned about the timing , once i put it all back
Thanks
BIll
 
did you remove the distributor? The distributor
for the VA series is driven off of the the cam and
would need to be pulled in order to remove the
cam.
 
I'm guessing your problem is the lifters

I changed the cam once in a 411B. Same basic
engine. I think the engine had to be removed and
turned upside down to keep the lifters from
interfering.
 
As far as timing it. The gears will have marks to
line up. The engine will need to be on TDC
compression stoke #1 cylinder and the distributor
rotor pointing to the #1 tower on the cap.
 
(quoted from post at 03:47:23 09/17/14) did you remove the distributor? The distributor
for the VA series is driven off of the the cam and
would need to be pulled in order to remove the
cam.
yes, distributor was removed
maybe if I got a thin sheet of flashing, and slid that under all lifters and held up the lifters that way
 
You could use wood dowels jammed into the lifters, to hold them up. Use rubber bands around each pair. Or you could cut some pieces out of the side of a plastic jug, once you get the cam journals under the edge of them it ought to slide past. Then repeat after the next bushing.
 
Chuck: You ready up there if we get a frost Friday AM? We'll be in a "world of hurt" down here if it happens.
 
Bill, We had a broken cam and I bougth some cheap extenable magnets and pulled the lifters up and put a clothes pin on the stem to hold them in place.
Jerry from OHIO
 
I went to lowes and got a couple lengths of wood dowell slightly bigger than the top opening in the lifter, cut to length and grind a taper that wedges in the lifter, that and some spring loaded clothes pins to clamp the dowells from falling is the ticket. I even have them put away for further reference.
 
John, Corn is just dented, guess it will make it. Buddy's beans could use some more time but guess whats there will be OK.. I know down your way you had a lot of rain we didn't see. I wish the weather would straighten out so I could just get some 2nd cutting in the barn.
 

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