lizs head/cam swap

[1BADAIR]

cool
how much preload will the 7.425's give you?
what made you switch to HS rockers?

[MORNINGSTAR2101]

alright, i picked up the transmission last sunday. no pics because, well, it doesnt look any different than when it was taken out. however, chris came over tonight and we measured for pushrods. 7.425 is what we came up with, thanks russftw for the reassurance. also, i haz more pics! 1. yeah, wanted to see them all pretty like, just chillin in the heads. yes, i understand that they will need to come back off. 2. oil pump, installed. i kind of freaked out about those two 'bolt holes' in the middle there, but patrick got that all figured out for me. thanks again 3. yeah pickup tube, way to be installed! 4. and the cover, i painted it black this will match those valve covers.

[1BADAIR]

nice job liz your doing what most females dare not to even think about attempting

LIZFTW!

I have to step up.. She's gonna be trying to take my job soon

[MORNINGSTAR2101]

it is surprising sometimes how hard we can make things out to be

hahahaha fact! there have been several times that i have thought 'now that wasnt so bad' lol, except with removing the transmission.

[meissen]

for Liz!

[TSTONE]

looks great liz - keep up the good work

it is surprising sometimes how hard we can make things out to be

[02redz28]

Its moving along!!!

[MORNINGSTAR2101]

we need a LIZ FTW smiley

lol, i belive that rolo is working on a ms ls1 smiley but thanks!!!

[JoeliusZ28]

we need a LIZ FTW smiley

[my95z28]

Soooo, when is that trans gonna get picked up?

[Virtue]

nice job liz your doing what most females dare not to even think about attempting

LIZFTW!

[Kwazrollinz28]

I think i recognize this build are you on another forum as well?

[MORNINGSTAR2101]

sooo, put in a little bit of time today and installed the timing chain. although ive been very happy with the information on www.ls1howto.com , they made it sound much more difficult than it actually was:

Thread your old crankshaft bolt back into the crank and with a wrench, turn the crankshaft until you see the small black dot pointing straight up. See picture on the left for reference. Next, in your hand, orient cam gear so dot is on bottom and hold it up to the front of the cam....see the smaller 4th hole in the cam gear? That is where the cam alignment dowel goes in. Spin camshaft by hand so dowel looks like it'll line up with cam gear properly to align the dots. Put the timing chain on the crank gear, and then put it on the cam gear, holding the cam gear up with your hand to keep tension on the chain. Carefully try to get the camgear to seat on the front of the cam. If you don't get the hole and the dowel aligned just right, you're just going to push the cam back into the block.

If you are having trouble aligning it, try threading a cam bolt through the gear into the cam to grab it and line it up like that. Most likely you are going to have to keep moving the chain on the cam gear until you get the dots lined up just perfect, and you'll have to get lucky and have the cam oriented just perfect so the gear seats on like it should. If all this sounds complicated, just look at the picture on the left and make yours look exactly like that. Don't get mad if this part takes 20-30 minutes of trying until it all looks correct. Once it's all together, make 100.000% sure the dots are lined up exactly. You can't be off by a few degrees due to the sprocket/chain setup, you can be off by one tooth at the minimum so if you are off you'll see it. If it looks off a little bit, turn the crankshaft by hand again to see if the 2 dots do indeed line up when they are straight up and down...sometimes if your crankshaft is 5 degrees too far, the cam gear will look like it's off 10 degrees or so and you'll think there's no way they'll line up exact...when in actuality you just needed to get the crankshaft straight up.

knowing that it was important that the dots on the gears matched up correctly, i just made sure that the dot on the crank was facing up before messing with the cam. i then mounted the cam gear by threading one of the bolts and turned the gear til i got it in the right spot. then i took the gear off and put the timing chain on it. making sure to keep the dot on the cam gear facing down, i took the gear with the chain and installed that. after mounting the cam gear, the dots lined up perfectly. unfortunately, i wasnt able to get a good close up of the dots, but i tried.

[b.lee]

That rust isn't so bad.

[TSTONE]

typical michigan scale - it's really not that bad