98snakehorse
Well-Known Member
On my stock cams I had a spot on the back end of the cam to put a ratchet or breaker bar into and that held it. My bullet cams have a spot to put a wrench about half way down the cam.
Thanks that did the trick. Messed around in the shop again this weekend, tore down the old engine a bit and took the timing components off as well as the camshafts. Second question. How are you supposed to relieve the pressure on the timing chain tensioners?? I ended up just unbolting them but I know in order to get them installed you will have to relieve the tension somehow?? Any way I also started degreasing and cleaning up the engine bay a bit. Will probably need to wash once more once it completely drys.
Also some good news, I was able to bend the core support back. If anyone wants some ideas how to do this, please understand this will not make this perfect I just needed to nudge everything forward a bit which it did a great job. The process I used was an old scissor jack I had laying around and a couple of short pieces of 2x4. I then wedged the jack sideways between the bottom of the core support and the front sway bar mounts using the 2x4's as a cushion and slowly turned the jack untill I got the core support where I wanted it.