Does anyone know where a good place to get a better exhaust cam timing gear bolt is? my exhaust cam is off time by a half tooth, tried to loosen it and stripped out the EXTREMELY shallow torx head. Besides habving to figure out how to remove this bolt I also need the better bolt I have seen people discuss before. All help is greatly appreciated!
Thank you all for your help. Any ideas on how to get it out? the bolt head is completely stripped. I am figuring on taking the cam back out and using old timing belt to make a strap wrenh to hopefully use the gear to break the torque free. Any better ideas?
I hated that bolt so much. I just used a breaker bar and had a friend put a lot of pressure onto the end to keep it from slipping. It was pretty stripped already but I got lucky and it came loose. I replaced it with the ARP bolt from CFM.
thanx, i had my wife out there with me and that is what i have tried already. even tried to use a standard and metric allen to budge it and no luck. I DO plan on using the arp bolt once i get it out
are you using the pipe wrench to grab exhaust cam gear? I have tried to get ahold of the bolt with a pipewrench, channel locks, vise grips with no avail. I would be a little worried to grip the teeth on the cam gear with a pie wrench in fear it would put grooves on the pully teeth and cause more wear on belt
I have had 2 that I couldnt get off / stripped is why they came to me , I took a sharp chisel and locked the cam gear with a big screw driver through the hole in the gear and rested it on the head then gave it some serious smacks in the direction of loosening it and they cams right off
A nut welded to the outside of the old bolt works good to
That is going to be my plan b. I just did not have it in me to take a chisel and beater to it just yet. I have a welder at the house and thanks for the suggestion, that is one that i did not think of yet
I got out this morning and used an old timing belt,wrapped the gear used an 18in pipe wrench on the gear making sure to have the bite over the gear spokes and it twisted right out. I used the belt to protect the gear and made sure to have the wrench bite on the supported part of the gear and it worked like a charm. was using a combo wrench to hold the cam at the same time. thanx to all who gave advice it is greatly appreciated
I wasn't aware this was a common problem, that bolt never gave me any trouble at all. The right Torx bit seems like a very good fit. I guess I can see if it slipped once it could be done for.
Congrats on getting it out though, that's probably a relief to be done with it.
ok well anybody that wants A NEW massive bolt PM me $15 SHIPPED first come first serve
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