<VV> Smittys Head splitting (humor?)

[Louis C. Armer,Jr.]

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At 05:16 PM 5/22/2006, you wrote:
>Smitty Says:  OK everybody, calm down.  I appreciate the thought 
>that you are saving me from myself but take a chill pill.  I refer 
>youi to the cam and crank picture  page 6A-48 in the 61 manual.  You 
>Late owners have to guess what I am talking about since you don't 
>have a 61 manual.
>   The picture shows the crank gear with the keyway to the left and 
> the cam gear with the keyway down.  This is also with the tiny zero 
> at the absolute top and the crank hub index mark at the bottom in 
> rotation.  This is TDC for Cyl # 1     According to what I have 
> read (I have never actually watched it happen in a running engine) 
> the crank rotates twice for each cam revolution.  The # 2 cyl fires 
> exactly opposite the # 1 cyl in the firing cycle.  That means if 
> you rotate the damper (crankshaft) one revolution from TDC # 1, you 
> will be at TDC for # 2 which puts the zero 180 degrees from #1 
> position which puts it guess where?  Right smack at the 
> bottom.  Right in line with the block part line (If you didn't 
> screw up).  I might be old and incompetent, but I think I'm right on this.
>   Engine is out of the car and half stripped down.  I am going to 
> try to split the block with the heads on just because I want to do 
> it that way.
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