Hellllp! My Wagon has given up!!...(timing gears)

[Sigs]

ouch! camshaft gear!





Now, to get it off!!

[Lucy Blue]

you know you can change the cam gear with the camshaft still in the engine

instead of it taking you about 5 hours you can do it in about 2

BUT you have to know what you are doing and it needs two people.

Cheers

[Sigs]

Its starting to sound like fun. I looked at it and thought I'd just pop it off and replace it with another!
So Sunny Tim I need to take the camshaft out? Is this where you undo the retaining bolts through the camshaft gear holes.
After this does it just slide out or do you need to do additional work to pop out the camshaft?
Also, I note in the workshop manual it talks about using a special tool to release the gear from the camshaft. Is this tool necessary or is there another way of doing it? Once I have it off is it just a matter of hitting it back on again?

On the other hand Lucy Blue, how do you pop it off while the camshaft is still in the motor?? Sounds a helll of a lot easier. What implications are there for doing it this way and do you just whack the new one into place?

Regards,
Sigs

[smooth]

[Sigs]

I've pulled the rocker cover off, crapped myself, then pulled the rocker shaft, push rods, coil, distributor, side plate, tappets??, then finally turned the crankshaft so the camshaft was in position to undo the retaining bolts, then figured out I'd need to remove basically the whole front end to slide the camshaft out, so I did that (biggest part of the job, rusty bolts, how about the person who decided itwas a good idea to put the screws for the indicator grille pieces inside the guard, whose #%@$ idea was that in design!)

Anyway, the camshaft is out, whoohoo!! Now it's a waiting game for the new camshaft timing gear to come in......

Thanks for your help, it's much needed and appreciated.
Regards,
Sigs

[Lucy Blue]

Yeah the engine work is basically straight forward

But the amount of time required to get at those 5/16 bolts that hold the indicator surrounds that are covered in road grime and then the seized nuts in the grille is way more than to remove the camshaft from the engine.

By removing the headlight buckets you can get another angle on the Indicator surround bolts.

Heres a tip, replace the indicator bolts with flat head screws but grease them first before installing also grease the grille nuts and bolts or coat them in used engine oil.

I swapped camshafts in my car a few weeks back and it took me 4hours 50 minutes
And it was raining!