Well, Today's goal was to finish installing the timing belts on my KV6.
Unfortunately the old bucket of bolts bit me on the ass today, or more accurately the idiot that had the engine apart last did.
When you set the timing on a KV6 you loosen off the front timing pulleys to allow some adjustment. When I did that I found the pulley had too much movement.
I removed the pulley and found a big chunk of the camshaft flange had been broken off. The piece wasn't in there so whoever did it just bolted the thing back together and
hoped for the best. Hmmmph! The exhaust cam was in the same condition but that didn't affect me as there is no pulley on that cam. At least it didn't affect me until I tried to remove
the rear pulley on the cam. It seems Mr. Muscle had cranked the rear pulley on to make up for breaking the other end of the cam, and with the other end missing it isn't possible to remove the pulley.
Broken Cams
So, the plan is to remove the head, drill the bolt out that secures the rear exhaust cam pulley and swap the two good cams over from my old L/H head. Easy-Nope!
Seems instead of using anaerobic sealant on the cam carrier the last guy used RTV adhesive sealant instead. It is stuck on good!. I resorted to using a jack under the broken exhaust cam to pop the outboard front corner of the cam carrier off but it is stuck so fast the rest won't budge. Tomorrow I am going to try using the floor jack with a length of pipe under the intake cam to get the carrier off, hopefully without damaging it.
Anyway, if you have read all of this, Thanks for listening. And wish me luck!
Jacking off the cam carrier.