Rod bolts & changing them
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I swapped them out in my Camaro while I changed the k-member (bolts only). I have only done it in F-bodies, you will need to support the engine & drop the pan.
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There's been a lot of threads on this and a lot have done it. I did it on my 99 C5. I used the ARP Pro series bolts, but if I were to do it again I would use the Katechs. The controversy about this is ARP recommends resizing the rods when changing bolts, Katech doesn't.
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how much would you expect to pay for a rod bolt swap??? b/c ive been quote 800 bucks and if that isnt the biggest load of **** i have ever heard i dont know what is, but just would like to know everyone elses cost to do it??
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Originally Posted by killaz
so how did you do it on your c5. Do you have to drop the cradel? How labor intence is it. THX
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You won't need to put new main bearings in or resize the rods, especially with Katech bolts.
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Do a search on ferrules. You will get a LOT of useful info to use BEFORE you start this project.
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It's labor intensive. I took me 2 6 hour days to do this. I have Kooks headers and getting to one of the bolts between the headers and the block almost rendered the job undoable. I was lucky to have a 72 tooth grearwrench in the size I needed and I was able to get it off 1 click at a time. It took me the better part of an hour. All in all it wasn't that bad. I had a friend helping me and we took our time.
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I will tell you that I was nervous with the whole drive train hanging on those hold-downs with the car up in the air but the setup held up well. You could get a Kent-Moore bar to hold the motor up but it costs like $1000 for the setup. You take the coolant overflow tank and washer tank off the fenders and this bolts onto the top of the shock towers. Then you have to mount these Kent-Moore engine lifting brakets to the side of the engine and hooks from the bar go into the brakets. You then turn the lifting bolts on the end of the hooks and the engine lifts up n the hooks and onto the bar. It was too expensive for me since I was only going to use it once so I went with the straps.
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Originally Posted by killaz
Can they be changed with the motor still in the car (2000 C5) and do i need to do bearings if I change the bolts?