If you are trying to remove the cam in the car, try removing the rocker
shaft and push rods. Then use some magnetic pickup tools to hold each
lifter as far up as they will go so that they clear the cam lobes.
Install the tools and rotate the cam, watching the magnets ride one by
one. When the magnet reaches its highest point try to pull it up a
little more, then block the magnet in place. Do this for all listers.
Adding some lithium grease might also help hold the lifters up.
Remove the radiator, lower pulley, timing chain cover and cam timing
gear. Be sure to note position of cam shaft to crank for reassembly. Am
I mistaking, but doesn't the distributor drive gear also need to be
removed? Rotate the cam at least one turn again to be sure that the
magnets are holding the lifters out of the way. Remove the cam retainer
and work the cam out the front. You may have to remove the grill, I
can't remember.
Peace,
Pat
Thusly spake MH, On 9/17/2009 11:09 AM:
> Remove valve cover, loosen rocker arms sufficiently to relieve lifter
> tension at high cam lobe positions or remove rocker shaft / arm assembly &
> push rods, After you pull the engine from the car, turn the engine upside
> down then remove:
>
> oil pan (optional, but is a good idea for guiding the cam in and out), fan
> belt, crank pulley/damper, timing cover, timing chain, cam gear, cam gear
> retainer, ........then extract the cam. That's the BASIC info. Go thru those
> steps, and you'll learn the smaller, intermediate things as you go.
>
> Disclaimer: ..... I might have forgotten other important items, but that's
> the general idea. I think there is more info in the service publications.
> Mike Hudson '67 - Stroker / 5-Speed
>
>
> ----- Original Message -----
> From: "peter harrison" <granvillecomputing@hotmail.com>
> To: "datsun" <datsun-roadsters@autox.team.net>
> Sent: Thursday, September 17, 2009 10:29 AM
> Subject: [Roadsters] Removing the cam
>
>
>
>> So starting to reassemble eliza - put fuel tank back in last weekend
>>
> w/Linda's
>
>> help -
>> need to get the camshaft out to clean it - any idea how I may acheive
>>
> that?
>
>> Still looking for passenger side mounts for alternator - want to move it
>>
> away
>
>> from exhaust - not looking for freebies
>>
>> thx
>>
>> peter
>>
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