well despite all my excitment, readiness and willingness my cam install was almost a complete failure. I was doin dam good by myself right, goin off the LS1 how to cam install write up and I was goin good, got the whole front of the motor stripped by myself and the valve covers and all off. Get to the harmonic balancer and go: ****.. autozone in all their brilliance gave me that piece of **** one thats like a maple leaf kinda design, I donno what the hell it was, but didnt work. Me and a buddy broke the balancer bolt loose finally and went back to autozone and paid the 60 DOLLAR RENTAL! for the 3 arm "Chrysler" puller. Only to find out that once we deside to tackle the springs that the "wine bottle opener" they gave me was supposed to be a spring compressor... and apparently thats the only F-in one they carry anymore! ****! so the most expensive and time consuming oil change and coolant flush took place in my drive way yesterday, and I almost had an aneurism (sp) because of it . So I did get the 7.4 rods in... long story short we bent one on the harmonic balancer **** box puller they gave us. Well, I guess Ill just order the only fashioned compressor that screws into the rocker bolt hole and give it a go another day....

 

What doesn't kill you makes you stronger. I would have an Aneurysm for sure

 

Get the crane spring tool for an LS1.

worth its weight in gold. its the best 120 bucks i ever spent.

 

sorry, i thought you might have a problem with the autozone compressor. pm this guy, its a great tool and he ships fast. good luck https://ls1tech.com/forums/showthread.php?t=317675

 

haha, thanks Bill, and for checking my spelling

but I just kinda wanted to be able to slam it done and then be able to say hey dad, check this out ya know. I think I did really well for having basically NO experience with tearing down a motor and all. But all well, another day another dollar

 

thanks man, Ill get my hands on some money this next week and fire it to my house and maybe give it another try when I get the money for another 6 qts of oil and a jug of dex-cool

 

haha, Ill see what comes up, I already spent like 50 bux on 16 pen magnets... but whatever, its a learning experience right

 

wine bottle opener style spring compressor, eh? what, like this?

 

I got tims tool nothing fancy but it gets the job done, it worked great on my ls6 springs

 

thats what i used. i love that tool!