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03-03-2008, 09:48 AM
#21
Hey man, I have that spring tool that you can borrow if you need to. Sorry I didn't reply to your PM earlier....I haven't been on since Friday. I wish I could give you a hand....I'm tied up for the next two or three weekends. Let me know though when you're ready to give it another go, and if I'm free I'll come give you a hand.
03-03-2008, 10:39 AM
#22
sweet, thanks man. Ill get her done yet, hopefully the weekend after Ill get some time at my buddy's shop so I've got some air and that will make thinks like the harmonic balancer easier. BTW, the 2 bolts underneath for the crankcase/timing cover, how the hell do u get those out??? those were tight as hell when I tried
Totally do the job in a shop with air, it makes life so much easier
03-03-2008, 06:51 PM
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sweet, thanks man. Ill get her done yet, hopefully the weekend after Ill get some time at my buddy's shop so I've got some air and that will make thinks like the harmonic balancer easier. BTW, the 2 bolts underneath for the crankcase/timing cover, how the hell do u get those out??? those were tight as hell when I tried
From my experience when I tore my motor down, the best way to get those two bolts out at the bottom of the timing cover is to get in there with a 10mm rachet wrench. If you don't have one, get one, its such a common bolt size on these trucks that you will use it all the time.
Also, sorry to hear about your problems with your cam install. I was so proud of myself after doing my cam/head install by myself until about 5 min. into the breakin procedure and one of my cam bearing failed, locked the cam, broke the timing chain, and bent a bunch of valves. At least you didn't have to change the motor in your truck.
03-03-2008, 09:18 PM
#27
From my experience when I tore my motor down, the best way to get those two bolts out at the bottom of the timing cover is to get in there with a 10mm rachet wrench. If you don't have one, get one, its such a common bolt size on these trucks that you will use it all the time.
Also, sorry to hear about your problems with your cam install. I was so proud of myself after doing my cam/head install by myself until about 5 min. into the breakin procedure and one of my cam bearing failed, locked the cam, broke the timing chain, and bent a bunch of valves. At least you didn't have to change the motor in your truck.
Also, sorry to hear about your problems with your cam install. I was so proud of myself after doing my cam/head install by myself until about 5 min. into the breakin procedure and one of my cam bearing failed, locked the cam, broke the timing chain, and bent a bunch of valves. At least you didn't have to change the motor in your truck.
03-03-2008, 09:20 PM
#28
Im lookin to maybe give it another go weekend after next at a buddie's, he has a compressor and can maybe get an air gun for that harmonic balancer bolt.. I can do it by hand but its a bitch. I donno, I just need someone else who knows vaguely what they're doing and I can give em a ratchet and say have at it on the other side of the valves. I think that's gonna take the longest since Im gonna do the top-dead center method. But I donno. I gotta hear from him by like tomorrow or somethin. Maybe someone will get free and we can really get it done. Let me know if anyone has some free time or suggestions, I guess I could wait a couple more weeks?
03-03-2008, 09:50 PM
#29
I also have the air tool that you hook up to the spark plug holes to pressurize the cylinder when you're doing the spring swap. Weekend after next won't work for me. I'm out of town this coming weekend and I'm having surgery on my ankle on Friday March 14 so I'll be out of commission that weekend as well. Beyond that depends on how I'm feeling. I'm not supposed to put any weight on it, and I'm sure I wouldn't be much help hobbling around on crutches 
