I was at the cam shop and David told me a couple years ago that a ( BBC )Big Block Chevy cam will drive the Small Block Chevy cam bearings right out.
Yep it did that and super easy.
Yesterday I had a wild idea of making a cam bearing installer using the BBC camshaft.
All lobes were ground off of the BBC cam and on one end on the front journal I machined 3/4" of the journal down to the SBC cam journal size so a SBC cam
bearing will slip over it.
Just like on a regular cam bearing driver.
Some of the BBC journal size is still there to give a lip to drive the bearing in place.
Worked like a charm.
I actually ground the journal down less than the SBC size to be able to wrap 1 round of electric tape around the journal to hold the cam bearing in place on the new
tool.
I wish I had a working camera!
Yep it did that and super easy.
Yesterday I had a wild idea of making a cam bearing installer using the BBC camshaft.
All lobes were ground off of the BBC cam and on one end on the front journal I machined 3/4" of the journal down to the SBC cam journal size so a SBC cam
bearing will slip over it.
Just like on a regular cam bearing driver.
Some of the BBC journal size is still there to give a lip to drive the bearing in place.
Worked like a charm.
I actually ground the journal down less than the SBC size to be able to wrap 1 round of electric tape around the journal to hold the cam bearing in place on the new
tool.
I wish I had a working camera!