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Cam chain position questions prior to removal

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FriedRice

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I am about to remove my chains and want to make sure I have the eng aligned right. I set TDC on the harmonic balancer and verified that the 1st piston on the pasenger side is at the top. Is that corect? Now I have the front cover off. I am looking at the large cam sprokets and the pass side dimples are at 11:00 and the driver side is just a bit past 12:00. Is this corect? When I goto remove the cam sprockets I need to know if they are keyed so that when I go to reinstall them that they are in the corect position. When I remove the chains is it nessisary to have the copper link align with those dimples on the sprocket? I made a cam position tool using a piece of angle iron and two 3/8th drive shorty extentions. I stuck the extentions into the back of the cams and then welded them to the piece of angle iron. I hope that it works. If so it saved me a ton of cash and hassle. So what else an I missing? Am I good to go as far as removing the heads? Is there a trick to this or am I making it more complicated then it needs to be?
 

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FriedRice said:
I am about to remove my chains and want to make sure I have the eng aligned right. I set TDC on the harmonic balancer and verified that the 1st piston on the pasenger side is at the top. Is that corect? Now I have the front cover off. I am looking at the large cam sprokets and the pass side dimples are at 11:00 and the driver side is just a bit past 12:00. Is this corect? When I goto remove the cam sprockets I need to know if they are keyed so that when I go to reinstall them that they are in the corect position. When I remove the chains is it nessisary to have the copper link align with those dimples on the sprocket? I made a cam position tool using a piece of angle iron and two 3/8th drive shorty extentions. I stuck the extentions into the back of the cams and then welded them to the piece of angle iron. I hope that it works. If so it saved me a ton of cash and hassle. So what else an I missing? Am I good to go as far as removing the heads? Is there a trick to this or am I making it more complicated then it needs to be?
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Hey brother I just did all that and then some.

FR500 Heads
FR500 Cams
FR500 Vavetrain
Accufab Billet Timing Wheel
New Oil Pump
Billet Oil Pump Gears
etc.....

Here are some highlights (hope that they help you a bit). If you still have questions, just email me at: stang32v@yahoo.com

Naz Mods......and then some....!

Naz
 

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Naz you are the man! That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for the help!
 

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Naz you are the man! That is exactly what I was looking for. Thanks so much for the help!
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Not a problem!
 
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