cam installation
03-05-2006, 03:19 AM
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Get some wooden dowl rods (around 3/8") and whittle a wedge on one end to help slide it in. Some people buy 16 pen magnets from the parts store and stick them to the lifters and then bend the pocket clip on them out and hang them on the edge of the head. I would prefer the dowl rod method if it was me.
03-05-2006, 03:04 PM
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when I put my cam in, I didn't use anything to hold the lifters. It is quite widely known that the lifter alignment system on these gen III and gen IV engines holds the lifters up on the bore with the pushrods and rocker arms removed. I was a little skeptical of this being my truck has almost 95,000 miles, but it worked great. all you do is rotate the cam a few times with the valvetrain out and you are good to go. it almost seems too easy but it really works. I would spin it and then try and see how much pressure is required to push them back dow just to be sure but you should be alright.
03-05-2006, 03:33 PM
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when I put my cam in, I didn't use anything to hold the lifters. It is quite widely known that the lifter alignment system on these gen III and gen IV engines holds the lifters up on the bore with the pushrods and rocker arms removed. I was a little skeptical of this being my truck has almost 95,000 miles, but it worked great. all you do is rotate the cam a few times with the valvetrain out and you are good to go. it almost seems too easy but it really works. I would spin it and then try and see how much pressure is required to push them back dow just to be sure but you should be alright.
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03-05-2006, 04:15 PM
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I have never used anything but I have talked to people that used to never use anything that always use the dowl rods now. All it takes is 1 lifter to fall 1 time and you have to pull the head to retrieve it.
03-05-2006, 04:29 PM
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we had one in a 00 5.3 that wouldnt stay up.. when you turned the cam you could feel/hear the lifter going up and down.. if the cam had come out, she was gonna drop
90% of the time they wont drop... but you never know. Espically if it takes you awhile to get the truck apart. The longer it sits cooling down the more chance one could drop i think
90% of the time they wont drop... but you never know. Espically if it takes you awhile to get the truck apart. The longer it sits cooling down the more chance one could drop i think
