nice looking cam removal tool!

[oldcorollas]

are these available for yotas/ anyone have/made one?

[TooF]

ummm short of sounding like a dolt.... whats it do ?

[haison]

Yeah i don't get it..
I thought you remove cams by undoing the bolts and lifting it straight off.
Unless theres any reason why you shouldn't do so?

[o_man_ra23]

holds the cam caps down so that you can un-torque the cams evenly, and you dont get the annoying thing where the cam pops up at one end when you are undoing it.

Cheers, Owen

[haison]

I woulda thought undoing the cam caps evenly would stop it from popping up at the other end..?
I'm not an expert on building engines or anything, just wanting to find out if what i've been doing is wrong.

[takai]

That and it means you dont get any warpage of the cam. Or bending the cam.

[haison]

Okay that makes very good sense now. Thanks.

[oldcorollas]

what these guys said...
something similar could be quite handy methinks... although it could be as simple as a lever (with long arm) than you push down to seat the caps..

[o_man_ra23]

unfortunately the fact that you have springs at one end pushing against it and not at the other means it wont come up evenly.

Not so bad with early 4cyl 8 valve twincams, but when you go to modern 24valve 6cyls, the cams can get warpage and bending as stated by tak-baby.

Cheers, Owen

[TooF]

hmm yup fair nuff.


i alwasy just nip off each bolt a tiny bit at a go and have never had grief with one end popping out before the other. that said its only on 4cly's generally 4ag and i havent tried or touched an line 6.

[EVOSTi]

seems a bit wank to me, whats wrong with undoing them evenly? i find it hard to beleive that a cam would bend.
ive seen people break cams tightening them down incorrectly, but even then you have to be pretty thick.

[IN 05 NT]

plus the time to set it up, an use it,.... woukdnt be very cost efective for workshops,

unless your doing cams on a ferrari or something that cams are probably $10,000 a pair....

always done it the conventional way, and nver had any probs,....

[Moppitt]

I recognise that tool, its a BMW special service tool. Umm it also gives you a nice big hand hold to grab on to while lifting the head on and off which actually helps because that head is a pain to get on and off, even though it is alloy.

You can see how for that would be useful for big cams though, hell, I was talking ato a mate a minute ago whos getting 280 degee cams with ?11.5mm (def 11 mm, iirc it was 11.5) of lift - but in a r32 gtr so not toyota.. - and with that kind of lift that tool would become very valuable.

If you can afford to sell a nut (or other body part) you could buy that tool from a dealer, but 1) it wont fit a toyota head and 2) It would cost you your left nut.

[SillyCarS]

warpage or bending of the cam?!

its highly unlikely your gunna bend or warp a cam by undoing it! unless it has deformed during use and it was the bearings holding it together, in which case youd chuck it out anyway

i should neg rep you but then you could neg rep me and i'd be in negative range somewhere

[allencr]

I definitly wouldn't guess that it's a 'cam removal' tool because anyone simple minded enough to F'up a cam would be too simple minded to be able to use it!!!

There have been other tools that were solutions for problems that didn't exist, but that 'cam-box' with all its oil troughs around each lobe might be a real install bitch, that this thing might help out with somehow or another.
I can't look at/find anything other then pics at the site.

Also pretty mild cams even for a Turbo.

http://filebox.vt.edu/users/nicolasb...ry/camtool.jpg