how hard is putting a cam in. talked to a shop today and said its realy hard. how long does it take. put headers and y pipe in yesterday and it took 5-6 hrs. never done a cam before. any help would help. thanks Troy

 

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It isn't that hard if you have all of the tools at hand.

 

This would be better in the internal engine section, might get more help.

A lot of people on here do their own, I will when I get one. It'll take a while, but can be done yourself. Definitely worth it to save the money. There are some good write ups on cam install's, do a search to give yourself an idea of what it'll be like.

 

That website will be a huge help, when I get around to putting my cam in, thats what Iam going to use as a referance. As far as dificulty goes, I believe that its mostly time consuming. I say that its worth a try, cause shops charge a lot of money for an install.

 

If you allot yourself two 10-12 hour days, you should not have a problem doing it your first time.

 

maybe not even that much...i had never done any work and i did an oil pump timing chain swap in about half that time or less i can't really remember..but i split it up among a couple days...it's not hard...just time consuming...you CANNOT try to do this in a budgeted time limit...it will always take longer than you think...and because of little things you never expect...i took off the intake once and didn't have the proper tools...i needed a deep socket 10mm or an extension to make it easier...it took 30 minutes prolly to do one bolt in the back (#8 cylinder)and about 20 minutes to do the one in front of it...this last time i took the intake off in about 20-30 minutes...not 3 hours haha

 

I was a newbie a few months ago when I installed mine. I used LS1Howto.com's instruction manual which is a must, Advanced Auto spring compressor (I just cut off the handle) and Auto Zones crank puller. I did waste sometime running back and forth to the parts store to get the corrct parts. I ended up renting every pully puller they had after the first one was the wrong one. I didn't want to take the risk and you get your money back so why not? I started about 11:00am on a Wednesday stopped @ 1:00am on Thursday. After getting back to work on Thusday I had it running by noon.. Everything went super smooth after I had the right tools which wasted about 3 hours. If you have everything in order and you have the right parts, I think you could have it done in one very very long day. I f not 1 1/2 days. Good luck!!