how do you get the cams out so I can take the head off? What all do I have to do

 

once the bolts are out, just pull (carefully). there might be some honda-bond holding them on. try and wiggle the capps.

 

those have dowel pins in them.... i took min of by gently wiggling them.. do not force them, or hammer them......

 

I just wiggled those things, seem like their on by cement. There has to be a way to get those off.

 

i say using a blunt non sharp object to lift em up.

 

usually they pop up if you rotate the cam gear

 

i rotate the camgears a bit and it pops up.

 

wiggle wiggle

mike

 

plastic hammer will do the job

 

you can slide a bolt 1/2 way back through the cam cap and put a side to side motion on it. keep working with them and they will come off.

 

rubber mallet and wiggle

 

when i get those off, what all is left? The big bolts that go along the bottom of the head?

 

you just have to tap them back and forth with a mallet a few times...the dowel pins hold them in there pretty good.

 

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This has worked for me multiple times!

 

i have a screwdriver that fits in the hole and i just wiggle it back and forth and use a tiny prybar for the other side.

 

rubber mallet or wiggeling, then you take the cams out (don't forget to set everything to TDC) and then undo the had bolts and then lift the head off/.

 

The rubber mallet works good. Make sure you don't try to pry up a cam....A friend of mine got a little bit frustated and did that and cracked a good gsr cam.

 

don't use a jack hammer.

 

thanks guys, I got them off. Now I am to the headstuds. I just broke one of my fu*kin extensions in my socket . No breaker bar here...

Rating 1-10. How hard is it to assembly a bottom end? What is the difficult part?

 

dude no offense but if you had that much trouble getting the caps off, then dont try a bottom end. i can get a head off in no time but i wont touch a bottom end.....i guell i dont have the confidence yet.

Landon

 

it's all very easy to dissasemble, its assembly thats the harder part. (which isn't that hard if you are read about it and have confidence in yourself.

difficulty is probably a 8.

If you dont know what you are doing, you will fail.

 

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Like everyone else says, wiggle wiggle

That's why you should get a VTEC head ...

 

I want a vtec head...I am searching

 

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Thats what i do