Winter projects?
11-14-2011, 02:15 PM
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11-14-2011, 10:20 PM
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I am doing cams this winter. Does anybody have the 3v compressor tool that I can rent from them? I am willing to throw them some cash, as long as you are saving me the $100 plus shipping to rent it online haha. And Rashad, the header install is tough, certainly some tight spaces, but my advice would be to soak the studs that attach the mid-pipe in wd40 for a few days before you install them. I snapped 2, just like Brian. If I had a lift I'd tell you to come by and help out, but it is a huge pain to do on jack stands and that's all I have. If you were going to do it that way anyways, I am down to come by and help out because I know it is helpful to have an extra hand when you are putting in headers.
No really, doing it without was really easy dude.
11-15-2011, 03:56 PM
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11-15-2011, 09:39 PM
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11-16-2011, 06:16 AM
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Yea, lucky for me the cam swap I did was on an 09 car, so they came right out with no issues.
Ok, so here in a nutshell is how its done. Note that I used Hammerons writeup that you can get right here.
Step one is getting the valvecovers off. COP's come out, plugs come out, unplug all the injector and COP wires, take the intake off for extra room, unplug all the throttle body connections, etc.
Once they are off, you use a breaker bar to manually rotate the engine. There is a specific "event" you are waiting for, noted by the lobes on the #1 and #5 cyclinders.
Once you've found this event, its time to have some fun. The purpose of this event is that at this time, 3 of the 12 followers on each side are "unloaded". What you do is back off the cam caps in reverse order only enough for you to slip out the loose followers on each side. If you take the caps off, you'll be looking for followers everywhere.
Once you have them out, its beer time. Then you torque the caps down to spec, and rotate the engine to the 6:00 position. Now one side at a time, you take off the cam caps, because at this point the remaining 9 followers are now unloaded, so the caps can come off. While one person has a breaker bar on the engine, another person will take out the phaser bolt. Then you jam in the timing wedge tool, one person holds the phaser and chain, other runs around and gets new cam and puts it back in place.
Then its reverse of what you did before. You torque the new cam in place on each side, go back to 12:00 *Note: Don't rotate the engine past the 6:00 position* and loosen the caps on each side so you can slip in those 3 followers you took out in the beginning. Torque back to spec and put it all back together.
See!? Simple... Any questions?
Ok, so here in a nutshell is how its done. Note that I used Hammerons writeup that you can get right here.
Step one is getting the valvecovers off. COP's come out, plugs come out, unplug all the injector and COP wires, take the intake off for extra room, unplug all the throttle body connections, etc.
Once they are off, you use a breaker bar to manually rotate the engine. There is a specific "event" you are waiting for, noted by the lobes on the #1 and #5 cyclinders.
Once you've found this event, its time to have some fun. The purpose of this event is that at this time, 3 of the 12 followers on each side are "unloaded". What you do is back off the cam caps in reverse order only enough for you to slip out the loose followers on each side. If you take the caps off, you'll be looking for followers everywhere.
Once you have them out, its beer time. Then you torque the caps down to spec, and rotate the engine to the 6:00 position. Now one side at a time, you take off the cam caps, because at this point the remaining 9 followers are now unloaded, so the caps can come off. While one person has a breaker bar on the engine, another person will take out the phaser bolt. Then you jam in the timing wedge tool, one person holds the phaser and chain, other runs around and gets new cam and puts it back in place.
Then its reverse of what you did before. You torque the new cam in place on each side, go back to 12:00 *Note: Don't rotate the engine past the 6:00 position* and loosen the caps on each side so you can slip in those 3 followers you took out in the beginning. Torque back to spec and put it all back together.
See!? Simple... Any questions?
11-16-2011, 06:59 AM
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Ahh I see what you do, just loosen up the caps enough to pop out the followers without using that crazy tool thanks that is going to help a lot. Yes I took my plugs out, I did not replace them but I did clean them and it was not that long ago, maybe 1,500 miles ago so I'm not worried about that.