Starting a new thread for my Super 55 diesel rebuild, I couldn't get oil pressure but I found the problem-[b:47f25b9f8b] I forgot[/b:47f25b9f8b] to install the 3 oil gallery plugs behind the camshaft timing gear. A search of my garage reveled a Ziploc bag with the 3 plugs, I took the engine apart more than a decade ago, assembled it several years ago between multiple hospitalizations for a serious medical problem so I am not surprised that I forgot them.
Moving on, I had to remove the cam gear to install the plugs and now I can't get it back on the cam. Gear, key and cam are very clean and undamaged. Several tries with a heated gear always fails to get it more than 1/3 of the way on to the cam. The gear teeth are meshed with the crank gear in the right spot and not binding. I need to remove the cam and press the gear on but I can't get the cam out as it hits something solid after moving forward about 1/8"-3/16". Fuel and oil pumps are out and the cam lobes are still on their respective lifters. I suspected the oil pump drive gear or the fuel pump lobe hitting the next lifter but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Any tips on the best procedure to get the cam out? Also how to [b:47f25b9f8b]hold the lifters up[/b:47f25b9f8b] in their bores to let the cam pass by. Trying to avoid taking the tractor back apart and putting the engine on a stand and rotating it upside down.
Mike
Moving on, I had to remove the cam gear to install the plugs and now I can't get it back on the cam. Gear, key and cam are very clean and undamaged. Several tries with a heated gear always fails to get it more than 1/3 of the way on to the cam. The gear teeth are meshed with the crank gear in the right spot and not binding. I need to remove the cam and press the gear on but I can't get the cam out as it hits something solid after moving forward about 1/8"-3/16". Fuel and oil pumps are out and the cam lobes are still on their respective lifters. I suspected the oil pump drive gear or the fuel pump lobe hitting the next lifter but that doesn't seem to be happening.
Any tips on the best procedure to get the cam out? Also how to [b:47f25b9f8b]hold the lifters up[/b:47f25b9f8b] in their bores to let the cam pass by. Trying to avoid taking the tractor back apart and putting the engine on a stand and rotating it upside down.
Mike