Nasty cam bearing!
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Champion
Joined: Aug 2006
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From: Roanoke, Texas
Yes this is my truck, im super pissed right now. I just spent all of Saturday and Sunday trying to find replacement bearings and an install tool. I found them both, but had to drive about a 2 hour trip to get both of them.
We pulled the cam out and noticed it looked like this, so i HAVE to replace them.
I knocked them all out ok, but installing the new ones "IS" hell.... i have 3 of them in but the 2nd one from the front is pure pain in the ***.
50$ for new bearings, and i spent a good part of the day trying to find a bearing install tool for cams, well i found one (the only one in the metroplex) retails for 200-400$ for the tool, well i went to go pick it up and the guy was taking forever to find it (first sign of bad news, but this is only the beginning) well he came back and said it had been used, and was missing a rubber band that goes around the metal peices to slide the cam in, well the bearings are 3 diffrent sizes, he said i could take it for 160$ i told him im going to return it if it doesn't work, so i drove 1.5 hours to go get a fubar'd install tool lucky me.
Now this is where it gets good.... pay attention.
1. The cam bearing installer slides off the back and of-course the main one i needed was the one thats missing the rubber sleeve, so i improvised and made one out of rubber bands. That didn't work...
2. Went to home depot to find a washer bigger then 2" well they didn't have any, don't even carry them, so i had to buy a piece of metal and make my own.
3. The peice of metal i made worked perfect for 3 of them, but the one right before the front has a smaller valley and the peice of metal does not fit through.
4. So we improvised again and made a slide hammer to pull it through, it was working till i dropped the god damn bolt holing it together down in the oil pan!
5. **** me! Now i have to pull the oil pan to get it out, which involves pulling the block up to get it off, and requires a engine hoist. Well i don't have one and it was like 10pm no one was able to bring one over, so we thought of like 50 diffrent ideas that didn't work.
6. So now i have a **** ton of parts ready to go on, and the only thing holding me back is the 2nd cam bearing from the front and the oil pan. I have to get the bolt out of the oil pan to use the install tool, and i have to figure out a way to install the bearing without bending it, or i have to buy another set for 50$ since they don't sell them individually.
7. have to call in some favors and hope someone i know will let me borrow an engine hoist to lift the block so i can get the pan off, while i have it up im going to try and put the bearing washer up in the right place and push the bearing through the front with the tool when i get the bolt back, then go buy a gasket and sill it back up.
8. So right now im stuck, i had everything ready Saturday we where about to install the new cam and degree it, and bolt everything back up. I would of had the motor running Saturday night, and able to get it tuned in Sunday and had it broke in by Monday.
When it rains... it pours! Everything was going so smoothly, i just knew something was going to **** up.
We pulled the cam out and noticed it looked like this, so i HAVE to replace them.
I knocked them all out ok, but installing the new ones "IS" hell.... i have 3 of them in but the 2nd one from the front is pure pain in the ***.
50$ for new bearings, and i spent a good part of the day trying to find a bearing install tool for cams, well i found one (the only one in the metroplex) retails for 200-400$ for the tool, well i went to go pick it up and the guy was taking forever to find it (first sign of bad news, but this is only the beginning) well he came back and said it had been used, and was missing a rubber band that goes around the metal peices to slide the cam in, well the bearings are 3 diffrent sizes, he said i could take it for 160$ i told him im going to return it if it doesn't work, so i drove 1.5 hours to go get a fubar'd install tool lucky me.
Now this is where it gets good.... pay attention.
1. The cam bearing installer slides off the back and of-course the main one i needed was the one thats missing the rubber sleeve, so i improvised and made one out of rubber bands. That didn't work...
2. Went to home depot to find a washer bigger then 2" well they didn't have any, don't even carry them, so i had to buy a piece of metal and make my own.
3. The peice of metal i made worked perfect for 3 of them, but the one right before the front has a smaller valley and the peice of metal does not fit through.
4. So we improvised again and made a slide hammer to pull it through, it was working till i dropped the god damn bolt holing it together down in the oil pan!
5. **** me! Now i have to pull the oil pan to get it out, which involves pulling the block up to get it off, and requires a engine hoist. Well i don't have one and it was like 10pm no one was able to bring one over, so we thought of like 50 diffrent ideas that didn't work.
6. So now i have a **** ton of parts ready to go on, and the only thing holding me back is the 2nd cam bearing from the front and the oil pan. I have to get the bolt out of the oil pan to use the install tool, and i have to figure out a way to install the bearing without bending it, or i have to buy another set for 50$ since they don't sell them individually.
7. have to call in some favors and hope someone i know will let me borrow an engine hoist to lift the block so i can get the pan off, while i have it up im going to try and put the bearing washer up in the right place and push the bearing through the front with the tool when i get the bolt back, then go buy a gasket and sill it back up.
8. So right now im stuck, i had everything ready Saturday we where about to install the new cam and degree it, and bolt everything back up. I would of had the motor running Saturday night, and able to get it tuned in Sunday and had it broke in by Monday.
When it rains... it pours! Everything was going so smoothly, i just knew something was going to **** up.
Legend
Joined: Feb 2005
Posts: 8,058
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From: Fort Worth, TX
Sounds exactly like the 505 build we're doing for the racecar. It's amazing how much time and $$$ a single thing can eat. Kinda shocked none of the speed shops had an install tool, though. Where did you end up going, Reher-Morrison, Smiley's? Or another shop?
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Champion
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From: Roanoke, Texas
I spent a good 2 hours calling shops and places all Sunday morning trying to find a place that had one, most of the people where complete idiots and didn't know what it was and tried to sell me a wheel bearing installer tool. Autozone and O'reilly both tried to sell me it. I went to Napa online and tried to find a shop open on Sunday, only ones open where ones super far away.
I had 2 choices, Mesquite, TX or Dallas, TX where the only places around me that had them in stock, i chose Dallas only because the previous guy i talked to said i could rent from them. Got there and they said i cant rent... should of went to Mesquite they had 2 on hand.