Cam bearing installation tool

[stickybones]

Anyone have a cam bearing removal/installation tool they're willing to loan/rent for me to use?

Thanks
Mike

 

[whitehot1]

Have you checked the auto parts stores most of them have a loan - a - tool service were you pay a deposit on the tool and when you bring it back you get all your money back,no charge for using the tool.

I don't know if they would have a cam bearing tool as a loaner but it would be worth a try to ask them.

 

[Squid4life]

Before I bought mine I just found a good engine shop and had them just do the bearings. I supplied the TA bearings and they only charged like $20. Might be worth it, as long as they know how the bearings line up for oiling.

 

[turbojimmy]

Anyone have a cam bearing removal/installation tool they're willing to loan/rent for me to use?

Thanks
Mike

EDIT: No, I don't have one. Thought you said cam sensor tool. Still sleepy.....

Jim

 

[stickybones]

I know Autozone has a tool rental program. I called them and they don't have a cam bearing tool. Wonder if Advance or Napa has tool rental program? As for bringing the engine to a machine shop to do it, I don't have a convenient way of transporting the engine. I actually used the new bearing to drive out the old one and drive in the new one at the same time using a hand sledge and a block of nylon as a buffer. I just can't seat the new bearing completely because of the chamfer on the block at the cam bearing hole. To seat it, I need the proper sized bearing driver. Hate to buy the tool, just to move the bearing another 1/16th of an inch. I'm also looking into having a local machine shop make me a driver. Maybe it'll be cheaper than purchasing a whole tool.

 

[whitehot1]

Advance and O'Reilly auto parts has a loan a tool program.:smile:

 

[stickybones]

I called Advance and they don't have one. As far as I know, there are no O'Reilly's around here in Norther NJ.

 

[ijames]

Take an old bearing to a HarborFreight store and look at their sets of seal, bushing, and bearing drivers. You might get lucky with the size. Also online at Harbor Freight Tools - Quality Tools at the Lowest Prices but they probably don't list all the sizes in the sets.

 

[pacecarta]

mike i have one but i'm little bit of a ride .. down by etown , so long as it wont be out on loan too long you're welcome to borrow it

 

[stickybones]

Thanks Paul for the offer and everyone else for the suggestions. I had a local machine shop turn me a driver from aluminum barstock. I only need the driver because I'm only changing the front cam bearing. $30. Cheaper than the full tool and about what it would would have cost in gas for two round trips to Paul's to borrow his.

 

[pacecarta]

if you were just doing the front you could use the new bearing and a regular seal driver to drive the new in while driving the old out , then once you have the old out use it to set the front of the new in a little

 

[stickybones]

if you were just doing the front you could use the new bearing and a regular seal driver to drive the new in while driving the old out , then once you have the old out use it to set the front of the new in a little

I don't have a seal driver of the correct size either. I did use the new bearing and a block of nylon to drive the new bearing in while pushing out the old one. However, once the new bearing gets past the chamfer on the face of the block, I couldn't drive it home the last ~1/8th of an inch or so. I couldn't line up the old bearing (that by now had come out) on the front side and whack it cleanly to seat the new bearing completely. The tool I had made worked perfectly for the job. A few taps with the hand sledge and the bearing seated. I'm sure many others have done it this way (i.e. using the new bearing to knock out the old), but I have to give Bison credit for tip. It was one of his posts I read that mentioned this method.

 

[Jeff Harrington]

If you have the use of a lath, you can make one out of a junk cam real easy.