1932 Packard Cam Rollers

[imported_petri]

Hello;

I have a 1932 Packard 900 Coupe-Roadster I am restoring and I have an engine question.

The engine is 319 cu inches has been overbored .020 and it's now at Effingham getting babbit. In the meantime I have noticed that the cam rollers on the rocker arms are very worn where they ride on the .375" pin. Now Egge makes the cam roller and a new pin. My question is how does one remove the cam roller and pin? Is the pin just an interference fit in the rocker arm assembly or is it pinned? There is a small pin that seems to go into the end of the rocker arm in that region but I think it may only be a plug that was inserted after drilling the oil passage. I'm not sure if Egge sends the the roller attached to the pin but if they do I guess I would only have to force the .375" pin out of the rocker arm on a press and then install the new one. Well if anybody has worked on this problem they can probably describe all of this to me better than I am doing. I was really surprised at how worn these rollers are.

thanks

Howard

[imported_petri]

After some thought I finally figured out how to do this job. I'll describe it here for future reference. You take a die grinder and cut those star washers off of the end that hold the roller on the pin. They won't come off any other way that I can see. Remove the cam roller and the press out the pin on a hydraulic press. The new cam rollers come with a groove and a circlip to hold the roller on. A much better way to do it. Press in the new pin. There is a flat side on the pin which must face the oil passage in the arm. Then just put the cam

roller on the pin and a washer and the circlip. It's easy once you figure it out.

Howard