Re: Debi's 1953 Patrician
Posted by Duane Gunn On 2013/5/20 22:26:13
JW, thanks, I did not know about the clearance and I now know I'll need to check it when I put everything back in.
I got back to the car and bought some dry ice to go with my vice grips. I put the dry ice on the hydraulic lifter hoping to shrink it, but it didn't work.
So I decided to pull the camshaft out to get the tappet out and remove the stuck lifter.
I didn't have a harmonic balancer puller so I went to Autozone and borrowed one. Of course it didn't work so I decided to modify the puller to make it work. I cut a piece of angle iron and put the base of the puller under it and bolted the angle iron to the harmonic balancer and it came out real easy.
I pulled the 2 bolts holding on the oil pump, after I marked the point on the distributor where the rotor is pointing to. Of course I lined up the timing gears (after I pulled the timing chain cover off). I did notice that I have a lot of slop in the timing chain, that is going on my list of things to buy.
I was hoping to leave the engine in the car, but it looks like the oil pump is not coming off easy so I will pull the motor out. I do have to pull the oil pan off to get the tappet and stuck lifter out, so with the engine out it will be a little easier.
I did get a little excited and put the clothes pins on the tappets to hold them up when I can pull the camshaft out.
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I got back to the car and bought some dry ice to go with my vice grips. I put the dry ice on the hydraulic lifter hoping to shrink it, but it didn't work.
So I decided to pull the camshaft out to get the tappet out and remove the stuck lifter.
I didn't have a harmonic balancer puller so I went to Autozone and borrowed one. Of course it didn't work so I decided to modify the puller to make it work. I cut a piece of angle iron and put the base of the puller under it and bolted the angle iron to the harmonic balancer and it came out real easy.
I pulled the 2 bolts holding on the oil pump, after I marked the point on the distributor where the rotor is pointing to. Of course I lined up the timing gears (after I pulled the timing chain cover off). I did notice that I have a lot of slop in the timing chain, that is going on my list of things to buy.
I was hoping to leave the engine in the car, but it looks like the oil pump is not coming off easy so I will pull the motor out. I do have to pull the oil pan off to get the tappet and stuck lifter out, so with the engine out it will be a little easier.
I did get a little excited and put the clothes pins on the tappets to hold them up when I can pull the camshaft out.
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