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[Flatrightout]

Hi all,

After some advice on cam shaft bearings, I've just has my block dipped, is ready for assembly, I am fitting a new cam, so should I replace the bearings ?

Manual says its a specilist job, I have access to a press, can someone elaborate on how you do it.

Thanks

[Carlos W]

If you've had it dipped I'd replace them.

PM AC Dodd ge can advise on them

[Spider]

If your Block has been hot dipped, you maybe able to get away with using the bearings that are still in there, however if it's been cold dipped, there'll still be the steel backing of the bearings but no bearing material left!

 

Can I just say though, that it would have been perhaps a better outcome from the dipping - hot or cold - if the bearings had been removed before hand.

 

None the less, as a matter of course, I always replace the bearings, they are not expensive in the scheme of an engine overhaul. If you've never done them or seen them being done, I'd actually suggest having them fitted by your machine shop, or contact AC Dodd of this forum, they don't usually charge much to fit them and then the risk of that part of the job is theirs and not yours.

 

They are actually fitted with a Cam Bearing Tool and not a press. Here's a clip I found, while not of an A Series Engine, but maybe of help

 

 

<Edit: I Remove and Replace my own Cam Bearings and while it's not a hard job, it is one that is very easy to stuff up.>

Edited by Moke Spider, 21 March 2015 - 09:23 AM.

[ACDodd]

£35 plus the bearings. I need the cam you intend to use so that I can ensure the correct fit.

 

I will be installing a set this coming week.

 

AC

Edited by ACDodd, 21 March 2015 - 09:29 AM.