Cam Shims

[1972_911T]

Has anyone ever swayed from the 3 on the left 4 on the right for the cam shims? I stripped my timing sprockets off last night to tackle an oil leak from the timing chain housing to head gasket and found I had opposite to this. I remember during my rebuild I spent about 8 hours doing my measurements to make sure these were right, so im abit shocked to find I have opasite to what the book states. Im also pretty sure thats what I had on stripdown as well.

Steve

[MBEngineering]

HI if the cam gear adjustment of the sprockets was checked correct then put them back, no set rule as to what shims go where, that is why you have to measure/check/adjust,

regards mike

[Henry Schmidt]

3 and 4 is just a starting point. I have seen as many as 5 shims and as few as 2. Every engine needs to be checked.


BTW: Mike , I think you sent me an email requesting some pricing and I deleted it .
Please send again