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Dave
12-27-2005, 09:22 AM
Well? I figured roller cams meant the rocker arms had rollers on them, and sliders just hit the rocker dead on with no rollers. Is this correct?

Thanks,
-Bryan

Raymont
12-27-2005, 09:30 AM
You are correct, the Roller Cams have followers with a rolling bearing built into them, they are underneath the cam, on the head. Slider cams have iron folowers.

If I recall correctly, Slider cams have wider lobes than Roller cams...

Dave
12-27-2005, 09:32 AM
You are correct, the Roller Cams have followers with a rolling bearing built into them, they are underneath the cam, on the head. Slider cams have iron folowers.

If I recall correctly, Slider cams have wider lobes than Roller cams...

Okay thanks Ray.

86lance
12-27-2005, 11:44 AM
yeah slider cams are wider than rollers

iniviate
12-27-2005, 11:17 PM
from the bible, www.thedodgegarage.com

http://www.thedodgegarage.com/turbo/turbo_cam_1.jpg

Dave
12-29-2005, 11:05 AM
So basically what cars did the slider cams come on? Out of all our fleet of TD's I haven't seen one that has a slider.

BadAssPerformance
12-29-2005, 11:11 AM
So basically what cars did the slider cams come on? Out of all our fleet of TD's I haven't seen one that has a slider.

The transition year was '88 so everything prior was a slider, everything after was a roller... 88's are supposed to be rollers, but i'm sure there are exceptions...