Cam install tool

Posted By: NTOLERANCE

Cam install tool - 10/07/14 02:39 AM

Anyone know of a cam install tool specific to big block mopars?

I'd prefer not to buy a $150 tool that works on a all engines as I dont work on anything else but B engines.

I suppose I could make one but dont have lathe access

Posted By: WILD BILL

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 02:49 AM

Just use a really long bolt (or bolts if it's a 3 bolt).

No need for an expensive tool. All you need is a good hold to guide the cam so it doesn't ding the bearings.

Posted By: RapidRobert

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 02:49 AM

Me too, no parts house here rents one. cam bearing installation (adjustable) tool. there's gotta be a good backyard solution

Posted By: NTOLERANCE

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 02:51 AM

SOOORRRY -

I meant cam BEARING install tool..

Sheesh....what the heck was i typing....

Posted By: Dcuda69

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 03:15 AM

$50.00 and you can rent it to your buddies because it will work on anything

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-18000-Univer...stallation+tool

Posted By: RapidRobert

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 04:35 AM

Dcuda is the man

I'm gonna get one

Posted By: NTOLERANCE

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 06:38 AM

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$50.00 and you can rent it to your buddies because it will work on anything

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-18000-Univer...stallation+tool

I even looked on amazon and somehow missed this. Thanks

Posted By: MLR426

Re: Cam install tool - 10/07/14 05:44 PM

great buy

MLR426

Posted By: Dcuda69

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 02:38 AM

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Dcuda is the man I'm gonna get one

lol...even a blind squirrel finds a nut once in a while!

Posted By: RobX4406

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 02:40 AM

Must have been a run on them. There were 11 available yesterday.

Now 147+

Posted By: mopar346

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 02:58 AM

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lol...even a blind squirrel finds an acurn ever now andd agin!

There ya go, I fixed it for ya.

Since most of the time I am gonna have machine work done to the block, even a clean and check at a minimum I usually just have the machine shop knock them in for me. Minimal expense in my view, of course I do double check their alignment when they are done.

Posted By: bordin34

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 03:13 AM

I used one of those rubber expanding freeze plugs to replace the forward-most cam bearing on my 440. Worked great.

Posted By: moparx

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 03:44 AM

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$50.00 and you can rent it to your buddies because it will work on anything

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-18000-Univer...stallation+tool

I even looked on amazon and somehow missed this. Thanks

looks like $125-134 to me instead of $50?

Posted By: Dcuda69

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 03:48 AM

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$50.00 and you can rent it to your buddies because it will work on anything

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-18000-Univer...stallation+tool

I even looked on amazon and somehow missed this. Thanks

looks like $125-134 to me instead of $50?

$50.00 when I posted it yesterday

Sounds like some of these guys got them ordered..hopefully they'll get them

Posted By: RobX4406

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 05:19 AM

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$50.00 and you can rent it to your buddies because it will work on anything

http://www.amazon.com/Lisle-18000-Univer...stallation+tool

I even looked on amazon and somehow missed this. Thanks

looks like $125-134 to me instead of $50?

$50.00 when I posted it yesterday Sounds like some of these guys got them ordered..hopefully they'll get them

Yep, there are limited quantities. When I ordered one it said 11 left. Once that special is gone, that's it.

Posted By: 383man

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 07:53 AM

That looks like the cam bearing tool I have. But I have never seen one thats specific to just bigblock Mopars like you were asking ? Ron

Posted By: BigBlockMopar

Re: Cam install tool - 10/08/14 12:54 PM

This one is

Posted By: mopars4ever

Re: Cam install tool - 10/09/14 08:36 AM

well i got the cam tool today off amazon. it was a lakewood driveshaft loop. i tried calling overstock all day and only got a recording.

Posted By: Supercuda

Re: Cam install tool - 10/09/14 12:32 PM

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well i got the cam tool today off amazon. it was a lakewood driveshaft loop. i tried calling overstock all day and only got a recording.

It's $134 now, musta got your message.

Posted By: Challenger 1

Re: Cam install tool - 10/09/14 01:11 PM

I got one of those Lisle cam bearing tool in a E bay deal years ago with several other tools that I was after.

I already had a snap on cam bearing driver from years earlier. The lisle tool looks almost exact to the snap on tool except it had rubber sleeves around the expanders and the snap on has multiple rubber o rings around it's expander.
The snap on tool was a much better easier tool to use and after 25 years of use the o rings are still good and have never given me problems or wore out.
I see Lisle provides extra rubber sleeve for each adapter and I know why, they wear out and are damaged pretty easy. I didn't like them because the seemed to swell up from oil use also. They are too easy to get slid out of place. I re sold the lisle tool.

Not saying it's a bad tool but there is difference and the snap on tool is much nicer to use. And I'm not even sure it's a "snap on" tool, I just got it from the snap on guy a long time ago.

I'll see if I can get a picture of the snap on expanders with the o rings.

Posted By: RobX4406

Re: Cam install tool - 10/09/14 07:43 PM

Anybody else get an interesting e-mail regarding their purchase of this item?

Posted By: JohnRR

Re: Cam install tool - 10/09/14 11:34 PM

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I see Lisle provides extra rubber sleeve for each adapter and I know why, they wear out and are damaged pretty easy. I didn't like them because the seemed to swell up from oil use also. They are too easy to get slid out of place. I re sold the lisle tool.

Funny , I bought my Lisle set off the snap on truck.

The second set of rubber expander in the Lisle kit are not extra , one set is thicker than the other. One is for removal m, the other is for install. ... though they do tear after a while.

I use my Lisle kit for more than cam bearings .

Posted By: RobX4406

Re: Cam install tool - 10/10/14 12:49 AM

Don't be surprised if a lakewood driveshaft loop shows up instead...

Posted By: NTOLERANCE

Re: Cam install tool - 10/10/14 06:23 AM

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Don't be surprised if a lakewood driveshaft loop shows up instead...

Yep they sent me the email........im getting a loop it seems.....going right back.

Posted By: mopars4ever

Re: Cam install tool - 10/10/14 09:12 AM

yep, mine going back too.