The crank bolt came off easily with the aid of a 5’ breaker bar. I used a 2 ton puller from NAPA to remove the pulley, when I ran out of threads I removed the bolt and put a socket in there to finish it off. After pulling the cover I now see what you guy’s mean about the chain play. I measured about 2 or 3 degrees of play on a 25,000 mile engine. Glad I got the SD double roller. So far no problems.

 

Cool Dale, good luck with the swap!

 

Thanks Jason, Hope your rebuild goes smooth too. I'll get to TR230 in there this week for sure, but I may end up with the Yella's while it's apart. Thunder did me right on getting all the parts to me quickly. Say hey to Angie.
Dale

 

Im about to put in the same cam, good luck with the swap and enjoy the newfound power.

 

I bought a stock replacement chain, how much better is the double roller???

 

I havent replaced mine in 50thousand miles, it seemed pretty loose with this last cam swap, should i invest in a new timing chain?

 

i had a new stock chain and double roller available when i did my swap....went with the SDPC double roller since it was not that hard to swap...dropping the oil pan for the oil pump pick up is a pain but I'm glad i got it done...

 

I've got 15K, changing cams, NOT changing chain..unless we get in there and see it needs to be changed...

Chris

 

SD double roller w/torrington is about $80.00. After seeing the stretch on the stock chain I am glad I went ahead with it. Got the Thunder oil pump too. Just want to make it right the first time, why go back in later.