I would get new water pump gaskets. Others say they can be reused, but the silicon bead on mine was crushed. A harmonic balancer bolt should also be gotten since it is a torque to yield bolt. And buy some assembly/ camshaft break in lube from your local auto store. Use a ton of this when installing the cam and put a dab of it on the pushrods before you put the rocker arms back on.

 

</font><blockquote><font size="1" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">quote:</font><hr /><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">Originally posted by Ryan23silverado:
<strong> I would get new water pump gaskets. Others say they can be reused, but the silicon bead on mine was crushed. A harmonic balancer bolt should also be gotten since it is a torque to yield bolt. And buy some assembly/ camshaft break in lube from your local auto store. Use a ton of this when installing the cam and put a dab of it on the pushrods before you put the rocker arms back on. </strong></font><hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Helvetica, sans-serif">u dint need assembly lube just oil., coat the cam with oil an u will be fine.

 

The lube puts a good barrier between the cam lobes and the cam bearings when putting in the new camshaft. (at the risk of later jokes in this post) The lube makes it slide in easier than just the oli. It cost like $2 also. Yes, you could just use oil, but the main thing is to make sure the camshaft goes in straight and does not knick any cam bearings. The assembly lube coats any cam bearing shavings that may come off.
Some more advice: make sure the inside of your camshaft is cleaned out. When I got mine from Crane there were a buch of metal shavings still sitting inside of the drilled center of the cam.

 

I ordered 2002 ZO6 springs & Thunder Racing Pushrods for my Crane Cam -

208/216 - .530/.530" lift - 113LSA

Thats all I need right?

 

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