{"id":5387,"date":"2025-10-18T08:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/?p=5387"},"modified":"2025-10-18T08:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T12:36:23","slug":"good-grief","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kgworks.ca\/?p=5387","title":{"rendered":"Good grief!"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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The 305 was beginning to miss and it wasn’t responding to the throttle well at all. So I thought that maybe one of the lifters might need adjusting. So I did an adjust with the engine running. All was OK until I got to #7 cylinder. The exhaust lifter at the far right was not moving a whole lot – maybe a 1\/16″. My suspicion was that maybe the cam lobe for the valve was damaged.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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So off with the carb and intake to see if the lifter was stuck part way up and the cam was just tickling its bottom.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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#7 exhaust lifter and it has been ground out by the cam lobe which destroyed itself in the process<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Three choices: #1 install and new cam and lifters ($300+); #2 put in the 350 cam and lifters from the original Chevy motor; or #3 pull the engine and get the original 350 rebuilt and installed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I”m going with #3 rather than using my time fixing the 305. Here the 350 is loaded on my utility trailer and I’ll be taking it to R&D Performance in Lower Onslow to be cleaned and new cam bearings installed. I was going to install the bearings myself, but I’d have to buy the tool needed plus a set of bearings and maybe two if I messed up!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Didn’t expect to have to remove the engine so soon. Oh well, it would have to have come out eventually.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Up to the top of the quick jacks and time to get everything disconnected underneath. Not my favourite job. getting the fluids out – messy, tools dropping on my face, …<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Car back down on Jack stands. I can’t fit the hoist legs under the car with them in place. Here I’m lifting the engine just enough to get the mount bolts out.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Next will be the trick of getting the engine an trans out together without damaging the body.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 305 was beginning to miss and it wasn’t responding to the throttle well at all. So I thought that maybe one of the lifters might need adjusting. So I did an adjust with the engine running. All was OK until I got to #7 cylinder. The exhaust lifter at the far right was not … <\/p>\n

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