Anyone have a lifter tool I could borrow
 

interested to hear how you guys held your lifters in place. This cam swap isn't complicated but its kinda turning out to be a PITA. I have the motor out of the car and sitting on a dolly.

Cant get the crank pulley bolt off without turning the motor over but my buddy's got a cordless impact good till 500lb/ft that may do it and if not hes got an air impact good for more than that.

So I hope thats taken care of. I was gonna get the JPR lifter tool but for 105$ for something I'll use once it seems like a waste
http://www.thunderracing.com/catalog...d=108&pcid=171

Heard of people using dowels and pen magnets but don said hes seen the magnets come off and I've read of lifters still falling out of place enough that you cant get the new cam in even with some wooden/metal dowels from home depot.

Wanted to see if anyone had that tool or what they suggest, I'm leaning towards the metal dowels from home depot, which will keep the lifters supposedly from dropping all the way, and at least allow you to get to it with a pen magnet.

Otherwise for a real simple job.. couple things are bein a real PITA.

If you guys got anything I could borrow I would GREATLY appreciate it. A small part of me still thinks I may have the car ready to race on the 19th which is the first road race event of the year. I plan to head to the cape after dyno day and do the cam swap, so if your goin to the dyno day I could meet you there.

Thank you thank you thank you in advance

"In theory" they should stay put in the retainers if you just turn the cam a few times witht he rockers off and the pushrods out, when I had my first cam put in at Rapid that is how Mikey did it. Gutsy. I've seen the pen magnets done and also I have seen them fall into the engine (fortunately they were recovered). Go with the dowels, just be careful when you put them in and take them out that you don't damage anything.

Motor's on the stand =flip the motor upside down and install the cam.

HAHAHAHA^^^^ NO ONE THOUGHT OF THAT!!!!!!

Yeah I know you said that but its not technically on a nice pretty stand. More like a table.

I was gonna say, it said it was on a dolly

I will give it a shot with the dowels. I still need to find a pen magnet that'll work if one does drop and get some epoxy.. Need to go research now what size dowels.

Post 17 and 19..

http://www.ls1tech.com/forums/genera...lder-tool.html

I did it with 5/16 oak wooden dowels .79 cents at home depot

didnt even need them either. Once I got the crank pulley bolt off everything else was pretty straight forward.

BTW thank god don told me to heat up the crank pulley bolt. I had an IR impact gun going at the crank pulley bolt and it still didnt come off till I got some MAP gas and once it was warm it came out easy as pie.

I spun the cam though used the wooden dowels but honestly I didnt need them the stock cam came out very easy and the new cam went in very easy. Seemed to take a long time to do but I got it done. Still waiting to get the valvesprings back from pac so I can get the valve covers back on and put the pan/tranny back on and the new motor mounts on and get it back in the car, should only take a day to do that I hope.

yeah the crank bolt can be a PITA, other option is to do it while all the valves are closed when you take the rockers off.