boy&hisdogs
I'm Awesome
I messed up. I was changing my timing chain and gears, and when I went to torque the bolts broke one of them of. I thought I was being gentle, going around doing just a little at a time, but still snapped the head off one of them. The others were stretched/deformed and look like they would be about to break. I tried to use an extractor kit, didn't work. The extractor just kept stripping out. I tried to weld a nut on the end of the broken bolt and apparently some of the weld got away from me and I ended up partially welding the broken bolt to the cam. I ground it down as much as I feel comfortable with and it's still fused. I don't know what else to do besides replace the cam at this point.
Any recommendations for a replacement cam? The truck is a 1998 K1500, 5.7/4l60e, 6" lift, 4.88 gears, 14bsf rear end, 37" tires. It's daily driven mostly on the highway and higher-speed country roads. The good and bad news is that I live in California, but I'll be moving to a no-smog state in about six months, but I'm also due for smog right now so whatever I get will have to pass on the stock tune. Typical cruising RPMs are 2000-2500.
It seems that my options are:
1) Junkyard stock cam, do the bare minimum just to get it back on the road for now and maybe upgrade later
2) New stock-spec cam
3) Mild aftermarket cam and risk opening up that Pandora's box on a truck that's already been running bad and fighting me every step of the way for months
But I'm open to other suggestions, be it about a new cam or if you have an idea to get the bolt out.
Any recommendations for a replacement cam? The truck is a 1998 K1500, 5.7/4l60e, 6" lift, 4.88 gears, 14bsf rear end, 37" tires. It's daily driven mostly on the highway and higher-speed country roads. The good and bad news is that I live in California, but I'll be moving to a no-smog state in about six months, but I'm also due for smog right now so whatever I get will have to pass on the stock tune. Typical cruising RPMs are 2000-2500.
It seems that my options are:
1) Junkyard stock cam, do the bare minimum just to get it back on the road for now and maybe upgrade later
2) New stock-spec cam
3) Mild aftermarket cam and risk opening up that Pandora's box on a truck that's already been running bad and fighting me every step of the way for months
But I'm open to other suggestions, be it about a new cam or if you have an idea to get the bolt out.