cam sprocket tool.

[clive f]

after a successful mot today, I`m soon to be racking up the 1000miles to run in the engine before going up to Joo`s for mapping, and before I go up there I will need to recheck the valve clearances.

so in the event of possibly changing some of the shims, does anyone have one of these tools for supporting the cam sprocket so as to enable the removal of the cam?

either if some generous chap could lend me one for a week, or give me some dimensions with a pic or two so that I could make one up.

any help much appreciated.

[Boosted Cerb]

clive f said:

does anyone have one of these tools for supporting the cam sprocket so as to enable the removal of the cam?

You just tie it our of the way, cable tie it to the cam chest

Or do you mean a tool to turn the cam?? In which case its a bit of plate with two pins which locate into the cam sprocket bolt holes on a long bar.

Rich.

[julian64]

Turning the cam just co-incidently happens to be a tool given with every angle grinder to change the discs with.

[Tanguero]

julian64 said:

Turning the cam just co-incidently happens to be a tool given with every angle grinder to change the discs with.

apart from my wretched angle grinder.... the pins were too far apart!

[clive f]

think I`ve created a bit of confusion here, the manual shows a plate that bolts onto the top of the timing cover using the rocker cover holes, with a shaft attatched to it, so you can undo the bolts to remove the sproket from the cam, just by sliding it off the cam onto the tool, you can then remove the cam without disturbing the timing chain.

[Tanguero]

clive f said:

think I`ve created a bit of confusion here, the manual shows a plate that bolts onto the top of the timing cover using the rocker cover holes, with a shaft attatched to it, so you can undo the bolts to remove the sproket from the cam, just by sliding it off the cam onto the tool, you can then remove the cam without disturbing the timing chain.

I used a short length of steel tube (about finger thick) and a piece of aluminium bar with a hole at each end to hold it down against the end of the head using bolts into the cam cover holes. The sprocket just slid back onto it giving just enough room to get a tool in toturn the cam. As belt and braces I also cable tied the chain to the sprocket before I moved it just in case!

[clive f]

Tanguero said:

clive f said:

think I`ve created a bit of confusion here, the manual shows a plate that bolts onto the top of the timing cover using the rocker cover holes, with a shaft attatched to it, so you can undo the bolts to remove the sproket from the cam, just by sliding it off the cam onto the tool, you can then remove the cam without disturbing the timing chain.

I used a short length of steel tube (about finger thick) and a piece of aluminium bar with a hole at each end to hold it down against the end of the head using bolts into the cam cover holes. The sprocket just slid back onto it giving just enough room to get a tool in toturn the cam. As belt and braces I also cable tied the chain to the sprocket before I moved it just in case!

thanks mate