Cam change in situ

[radzoule]

I'm planning on changing the Cam this weekend and understand from posts on here that it can be done with the engine in situ. Looking at the car though, I would have thought that there wasn't enough space between the front of the engine and the front crossbar to extract the cam (not the one which the swirl pot bolts to which can be removed - but the front crossmember). Does anyone know whether the engine/gearbox mounts need to be unbolted and the engine tilted to allow extraction?

Cheers

[sylvester]

No you dont need to do this to change the cam.Mine was changed in situ on my old 500,i think only the exhaust 'y' piece was removed.

[cre]

its quite easy to do a cam change in situ, just remove the chassis crossmember that the water tower bolts to and remove the y piece. but dont forget to leave the rockers off until you have sorted cam timing if you are going to dial the cam in!
its much easier without 90 odd lb of valve spring trying to force it.

Jamie

[v8 racing]

Just a quick tip radzoule, when you drain the water out of the system generally by the bottom hose you still have loads in the engine! before you remove the timing cover, on the passenger side of the front cover so to speak there are 2 bolts that go through the water pump and timing cover, remove the lower one of the 2 and let the water drain from here, that way you wont get a sump full of water!!

[GreenV8S]

Be very carefull what you do with the cam while you're trying to wriggle it out past the chassis etc, if you damage the cam bearings you'll be looking at an engine out full strip down to replace them.

[rev-erend]

GreenV8S said:

Be very carefull what you do with the cam while you're trying to wriggle it out past the chassis etc, if you damage the cam bearings you'll be looking at an engine out full strip down to replace them.

Cams are hard and bearings soft : so it's like a hot knife and butter.