Re: 1940 Custom Oil Canister and Low Compression

Posted by todd landis On 2014/10/27 1:08:04

Thanks BigKev. Up until several weeks ago, mine had the full flow through the canister, inlet at bottom. So my thinking is damage was done to the lifters and associated areas. Now have flow from a direct line, and oil filter.
Another question, when the engine was rebuilt many years ago, the original camshaft was ground wrong, was replaced by a good one. I still have the original camshaft. In case I do decide to do a rebuild of the engine, I will be slowly collecting spare replacement parts, can cam shafts be reground correctly? Am I better off getting a good cam shaft from a reputable company? Or sending the bad cam shaft of to a grinding company. Would they know what specs to grind to?
Thanks again.