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Old 07-08-2019, 12:36 PM   #10
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Originally Posted by The Radium King View Post
that blows my mind what they can cast - that would be items 1 and 7 in the pic below are cast as one piece then split?
I don't know how these particular ones are cast, but they're usually cast separately, mating surfaces machined, then bolted together to bore the journals for the cams. This is why it's so critical that they are kept as a set. A mis-matched set would never have perfectly round cam journals.

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