Cam Triangle Plate
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Simply - which way round?!

I have always done them with the part number outermost (so you can see when assembled) but I have a memory of reading somewhere that one side is a bearing surface - and that could be the side 'marked' with the part number meaning it should go in the other way round (part number to cam).

Thoughts and suggestions please!

Edited by graemec on 11th Oct, 2008.

one side is bearing face, it grey in colour, other sides metalic

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As above and much more noticeable on a used one than new.

The holes are not on an equal triangle so there should only be one way it will fit anyway, but there is one position with it backwards that is close.
What I have always done is look at the extra little hole - it is slightly nearer one of the main three, make sure the main hole that the little one is closest to, is top left, with the little hole just beneath it.

That is how every engine I've taken apart has been and puts the "bearing" face towards the cam.

None of mine have ever had a part number but it is unlikely they would stamp the number in the bearing material, ie, like a main bearing shell, it would be stamped in the steel side.

Schrödinger's cat - so which one am I ???