i dont know how possible it is to bend a cam but i think mine is.....i cant get the dang thing out for the life of me....anyone else ran into this problem?

 

Did you take off the mechanical fuel pump?

All the lifters out?

Distributor out?

Okay, not trying to suggest anything about you, just covering the bases.

 

Did you reinstall the cam sprocket and try to turn it by hand? It should move easily after all of 5-7's suggestions. If it spins freely but won't slide out, you may have a bearing that is grooved by a burr on the cam, effectively locking it in place. If that's the case, you'll be looking at new cam bearings.

 

yeah i had everything out and all... finally got it out..... the idiots that put it in before i got the car hammered the f*** out of it on the end so now its definately new bearing time and a rebuild to get all of the damn metal flakes out

 

heres a pic of the cam that i pulled

http://www.rochelle.net/~playa01/fuedupcam.html

 

my cam wont come out ehthier. i can get it out till i see about
3 1\2 lobes then it wont come out no more and it wont turn all the way around. u think i should take of the mechanical fuel pump so the rod can go down?

 

How the fork did they even get that installed? Are you certain the cam wasn't hitting the rear plug of the cam bore? Damn!

 

yes youll need to, the part of the cam where it sits on the bearing will be held up by the mechanical pump......

 

man...how long did that engine run with that chewed up thing in there?

 

Not very about a week tops : (

 

I believe that the installer of the cam tried to install the cam from the rear of the engine (IMPOSSIBLE TO DO). Since the cam wouldn't go, he got out the attitude adjuster and when to town.

Un-flippen'-believable!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by trans_am_racing
[B]heres a pic of the cam that i pulled

Unreal!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

LMAO!!! sorry...just had to laugh my *** off there. i may not know alot about engines but i know enough not to beat the **** out of a square block to get it into a round hole.lolz

 

Thats crazy!

 

If the cam won't come out, try turning the crank a few degrees... rods can be within the "volume" occupied by the cam's bearing journals as it slides out.

 

i got the cam out. i had to take the fuel pump off,but it slided rite out

 

Yea, someone beat that with a hammer. The rear plug will just shine it up, it doesnt do damage like that.