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does anybody know how the factory dealt with this problem back in the day?





Here's an answer Rick Ehrenburg recently gave on another thread.

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Here's a dirty little Mopar secret: OEM, all cam bearings were way undersize. On the engine line, the cam bearings were line bored to size. That's why all of Shep's old MP "bulletins" said to not change the cam bearings unless they were really shot!

Rick