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2013-14 Shelby GT500
Can't stop thinking about cams. Advice wanted.
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<blockquote data-quote="Catmonkey" data-source="post: 15666045" data-attributes="member: 124025"><p>Kurt after your failure, I have been on a quest to upgrade all these timing components in mine, and when I actually started I went with a bit more camshaft because I didn't intend to do this again. I made the mistake of doing it in the car. In hindsight it would have been less work to just pull the engine, but then I was also swapping intake manifolds and the transmission. To remove the timing cover, the oil cooler adapter has to be removed, and with LTs, that necessitated the removal of the driver's side header. </p><p></p><p>In that process, I found a way to get the driver's side cam cover off without removing the brake booster. I had removed the pedal assembly from the car to upgrade to the 13-14 clutch master cylinder, so the brake booster was loose. But, unless you remove the brake master cylinder, you're not going to get the booster out of the way, at least on a later car. It barely moves at all.</p><p></p><p>Being the lazy old guy that I am, I wanted to see if dropping the k-member several inches would gain me the clearance I needed. I did not want to open up the brake system.... again. Close, but no cigar. I then tried jacking up the rear of the transmission to gain a little more clearance with the k-member dropped and somehow the cam cover came off. It somehow went back in too, once I was done without much effort using the same tactic. Perhaps the booster being loose helped. I'm not sure. Sounds like a lot of work, but so is bleeding the brake system, since I'm a one-man show.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Catmonkey, post: 15666045, member: 124025"] Kurt after your failure, I have been on a quest to upgrade all these timing components in mine, and when I actually started I went with a bit more camshaft because I didn't intend to do this again. I made the mistake of doing it in the car. In hindsight it would have been less work to just pull the engine, but then I was also swapping intake manifolds and the transmission. To remove the timing cover, the oil cooler adapter has to be removed, and with LTs, that necessitated the removal of the driver's side header. In that process, I found a way to get the driver's side cam cover off without removing the brake booster. I had removed the pedal assembly from the car to upgrade to the 13-14 clutch master cylinder, so the brake booster was loose. But, unless you remove the brake master cylinder, you're not going to get the booster out of the way, at least on a later car. It barely moves at all. Being the lazy old guy that I am, I wanted to see if dropping the k-member several inches would gain me the clearance I needed. I did not want to open up the brake system.... again. Close, but no cigar. I then tried jacking up the rear of the transmission to gain a little more clearance with the k-member dropped and somehow the cam cover came off. It somehow went back in too, once I was done without much effort using the same tactic. Perhaps the booster being loose helped. I'm not sure. Sounds like a lot of work, but so is bleeding the brake system, since I'm a one-man show. [/QUOTE]
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