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Tech Forum => Workshop => Topic started by: scrw on July 21, 2010, 08:33:07 AM

Title: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: scrw on July 21, 2010, 08:33:07 AM

is it a  big job? expensive?

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Bishops Finger on July 21, 2010, 08:49:49 AM

Try Westbury...

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: scrw on July 21, 2010, 04:03:36 PM

try sod off! one does not try ones best to pass ones wealth to such a place unlike yourself

Want to know how involved the job is, not taking it to a garage

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Bubba on July 21, 2010, 04:24:40 PM

i am almost certain its the same arrangement as the 2.5 and is not too bad but its a bit hidden in your wj i would think

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Panic mechanic! on July 21, 2010, 04:45:30 PM

Quote from: V8 Bubba on July 21, 2010, 04:24:40 PM

i am almost certain its the same arrangement as the 2.5 and is not too bad but its a bit hidden in your wj i would think

 :iagree: I think  if your engine bay is anywhere near as cramped as the xj I would think you are going to have a knuckle scraping good time.

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: scrw on July 21, 2010, 04:50:12 PM

more room than the XJ

(https://birtydastards.com/frm/proxy.php?request=http%3A%2F%2Fi457.photobucket.com%2Falbums%2Fqq300%2Foffroading%2FJeep%2FIMAGE_081.jpg&hash=523e4606830d42dc75c61ce0a62425696498cf9b)


still debating wether or not to just junk the engine & put a new one in, it has 190k miles on it, any second hand unit should have a lot less on...

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Bubba on July 21, 2010, 05:01:26 PM

cheaper to do the chain i bet its only the nylon skid think thats shot but once you are in there not woth skimping just renew it all

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: scrw on July 21, 2010, 05:05:05 PM

fancy doing it?

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Bubba on July 21, 2010, 05:06:39 PM

i would but i have a pile of crusty cortina in the way at the mo and a couple of urgents poised

Title: Re: cam chain swap on an I-6 4l
Post by: Bishops Finger on July 21, 2010, 07:24:28 PM

Quote from: scrw on July 21, 2010, 05:05:05 PM

fancy doing it?

Oops SCRW thought he was in the Blue Oyster.... :hysterical: