[Flathead Fever]

They have me hopped on opioids and nerve meds and they kind of screw me up. I'm little out of it half of the time half of the time. Sometimes I think I see what I expect to see.

This is the original Merc cam that came out of that engine on the stand in the photos above It was reground into Potvin Super 3/8. With the first lobe pointing up I stuck a bolt in the closest cam gear bolt hole. I rolled it over and you can see that the bolt falls between two teeth. But then I noticed the alignment marks on the gear and cam are slightly off. Are they Ford marks or the cam grinders marks? Because I got to thinking maybe that gear needs to be removed to chuck the cam up in the cam grinder. Since they are off a little that means the bolt centered between the teeth would be off a little too. If they are the cam grinders marks that means he thought the gear needed to be put back in the original spot as your thinking. So, I went back out to the flathead junkyard to find an unmolested cam. It would be nice to have one the gear has never been off of. I found six early cams but no late model one's with gears. It would be nice to check a couple originals to see if the bolt lines up in the same spot, but this is the best I can do.