Any interest in cams?

[max]

Thanks Josh, that is a very complete explanation of what's going on under the hood ( buckets ).
Took some time to take in all the information you have so carefully provided and prepares us for what to expect once the cams are out, the plan was to order shims in advance as you may have gathered.

Actually would be interesting to see if the shims themselves are worn but i would expect that the wear takes place on the actual cam and bucket surface since those are the bits that end up shiny and polished if all goes well and the oil does it's all important work .

Yes, i did notice the measurements that you took with regard to the shim sizes and wondered if they can step them up by one thousand's of a millimeter to get it right in the middle of the tolerance even after the gear is run in after some time, that is an interesting detail, also makes me wonder what system they have to determine the required shim for each valve and how to measure all those gaps, i hope they have a happy robot to do that ''koni-chi wa" .

Guess it's not so bad in practice since 0.005 mm steps you from one end of the range to the other and is within the 0.006 spec. and you should be good for 100.000 k or so all things beiing equal.

Only started to get an idea about how to work with camshafts when you started this thread, it gave me much more insight of what's important and made me think about it all and i thank you for that; max