Basic modifications for newbies
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*Just a note to make you aware of the loading between the camshaft lobe and lifter crown. That pencil-point of contact, if carried out to a square inch, would be somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH. | *Just a note to make you aware of the loading between the camshaft lobe and lifter crown. That pencil-point of contact, if carried out to a square inch, would be somewhere between 250,000 and 300,000 POUNDS PER SQUARE INCH. | ||
| + | So, it is incumbent on the engine builder to do everything in his/her power to assure that all precautions have been taken to protect parts with this much pressure between them. | ||
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