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Last work commute of the year.  Winter’s a’coming.

Read more: The ’61 Apache

My son and I:

And boy he takes good pictures.

Or can you?

During a rebuild, my son’s D17A1 stock cam slipped through my fingers and fell on the floor and instantly broke. There was language:

On the lathe, I threaded the broken end of the “front” half of the cam, drilled through the back two pieces, and counterbored the back of the back of the cam to fit a 9/16″ socket. I also threaded some 3/8″ rod:

Red locktite and some tight like a tiger, and it’s fixed:

No, this will NEVER be pressed back into service, it’s going back in a “dead” engine at work (our original engine when we got the car) that the cherubs work on (I stole its cam for my son’s car).

I guess, in theory, you could weld it once it’s assembled like this….