Quick ?: 4G64 Intake Cam Gear

PokinatchaPunk · 10-11-2006, 08:14 PM

Real quick question for you 4G64 guys....

I'm starting to assembly my engine and everything is going good but I've run into a confusing part. I'm putting on all new gaskets and seals and rings on this thing when I ran into the Intake CAM Gear...yeah the funny lookin' one. I realized that the "ring/seal/thing" (sorry having a brain fart and cant think of the real term for it but its the ring/seal that goes on the gear where it meets the cam) is obviously larger than the exhaust ring. Now seeing that I picked up and full engine gasket kit I thought the only thing that would be different would be the head gasket. After looking (scratching my head making grunting noises and wanting to hit stuff with a hammer) at it, it looked like it doesn't even use one.

So what's the deal with it? do you not use one or do you get one from Mitsu?

PokinatchaPunk · 10-12-2006, 09:05 PM

Ok...i took some pics to clarify what I was talking about...in hopes to get some type of response

The "goofy" cam gear I speak of is the DOHC 4g64 Intake Cam Gear...Shown below as the right Cam Gear

On the CAM gears (at least on 4g63 set-ups) they have a ring/seal (shown in the pic below) that goes on where the cam gear meets the camshaft.

the problem that I am running into it that on the Intake Cam Gear, where normally the ring/seal would sit on a standard 4g63 cam gear...There is a protruding peice of the gear itself that forms a ring. And unlike what I've heard (that you can use all gaskets and seals from a 4g63 engine gasket kit...except for the HG) appears that either you need a 4G64 DOHC intake SPECIFIC cam gear ring/seal or you dont use one at all. It looks like if you used a larger ring the it wouldn't be able to insert properly and sit in the head.

So the questions are...Do you use one? Do you use a specific 4g64 DOHC ring/seal? Or Am retarded and you use the standard 4g63 ring/seal and I'm just not putting it in right.

Thanks for your attention...now I'm going to wipe the brain matter from the screen.