Hey guys, a couple questions on camshafts. While chasing down a poor running condtion on my 57 Ford 292, I removed the front cover thinking it might be off a tooth even though it only looked off 2 degrees. What I found was worse. As I turned the engine over, you could watch the cam gear move in and out over a quarter inch. Its been almost 40 yrs since Ive worked on one of these, but I think I see the problem. After taking the cam gear off, I found 2 spacers behind the gear, which thru the gear alignment off. If you assemble it with just 1 spacer the gears line up. I dont have a book on this, does it take just 1 spacer? Of course it wiped out the cam, which leads to my second question. The cam card that came with the car says its a CompCam. Im an old school guy and not familiar with some of the specs. We used to call a cam a 3/4 or full race cam. Here are the specs:

                                        intake                  exhaust                                                                                         

gross valve lift                      .528                     .536                                                                                            duration @ .020 tappet lift       264                  268                                                         

Dan      Kingman Az.      86409