Wanted for borrowing, 8v camshaft removal tool

[Dave's Vectra]

Does anyone have one of the camshaft removal tool for the 8v, the type that were available from ebay that dont require the cylinder head bolts to be removed?

i dont really want to have to buy another headgasket etc, ive only had this one fitted about a year

needed to convert my c18nz using a seh cam, which is getting purchased tomorrow (29/03)

ill buy if it doesnt cost the earth

Im located in Egham surrey

[astrasman]

I have a sykes pickavant 1 available, makes the job quick and easy, pm me

[Yelloperil]

Hope your on about my CAM dave ;)

[Dave's Vectra]

Pm'ed and Pm'ed


EDIT: its proper name is a 'valve play compensator' tool ive discovered, i may buy/make one of these

[bennymac36]

if you drain the water out of the system before you atrat you should be able to loosen the bolts and do the changeover without causing any trouble.
i used to do it that way years ago when i was changing the camshafts over on the earlier nova's astra's and cav's without any tools.

[Dave's Vectra]

doing it that way is a bodge and can lead to early headgasket failure and i dont fancy changing another when mine was only done 8 mths ago

Sorry fella :cool:

[bennymac36]

no need to be sorry i know it's a bodge but so is using a tool to simulate the compression from 10 headbolts...

i hope it works out either way.

[Dave's Vectra]

all that tool does is push the valve down, so the follower can be removed which is done one at a time, it dont simulate compression from 10 headbolts fella