On Sat, 9 Feb 2002 Btp44@aol.com wrote:
> Hugh-I rembering my experieces of changing the cam with the head in place, I
> found that I couldn't get the lifters through the head. The pan had to be
> removed, lifters pushed up to clear the cam, cam removed, old lifters
> removed&replaced with the new ones, then the new cam inserted. Perhaps this
> is only necessary with the early head (1971 and earlier). Anybody else have
> the same problem? Also, if using the stock fuel pump, remove it before trying
> to extract the cam.
> Berry Price
According to Kastner, they made a tool to hold the lifters out of the way
when changing the cam at the track... the tool held the lifters up in
thier bores while the cam was extracted / inserted.
But if you are really changing cams, you should remove the head to
facilitate changing the tappets.
Remember - new cam == new tappets. If you don't do this, you might a well
take a hammer to your cam before you install it.
:-0
rml
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