Thread: Best way to get the cam out the car with the engine bolted up

Vice grips on the flexplate, lower the cradle slightly and big ass breaker bar with a pipe and bam... Easy peazy

Or you can do the old starter trick where you attach the breaker bar and socket on to the HB bolt and then have the handle of the breaker bar up against he subframe then crank it and when the starter engages it should loosen the bolt

That should be fine. When in doubt grab a pipe and throw it on the end of it.

Aren't you going to have to take the engine out anyway to put the new one in?

pipe on the end for the win

Nope this one has bottom end problems.. He's swapping the top half into the new car with the ok engine

I usually hit the head of the bolt with a little heat abd it loosens right up.

I put like a 4 foot pipe on my breaker bar and my buddy held flywheel with big prybar

Ok guys im using the breaker bar with the 5inch pipe still no go even with screenplay on blaster no movement ... wish I didnt work out today at the gym smh lol any more suggestions? Any more ways to put more weight to loosen?

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Torch it just don't burn the car down.

Originally Posted by 231FUN

Longer pipe...leverage is your friend

This. Next best move

Originally Posted by jayroca

I'll try that 10 inch pipe

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No homo

I recently pulled the balancer off mine when I swapped the engine out. It took a 1" impact gun to do it. They use a sealer similar/probably exactly the same on the threads to what they seal the snout of the supercharger.