How do I get Cam gears off camshaft?

[preston240sx]

Yea How do i get the cam spocket off the camshaft ?? can someone tell me how please thx >>>

[nonchalant rage]

take off the cam bolts, and then you may need to give it a little pursuasion for sprocket to come off.

[XcreatureX]

like he said bolt out should just come off

Seth

[jmhalder]

tap tap tapparoo to the sprocket with a 1" wrench

[justmerging]

impact wrench makes life easy

[onosqv]

impact wrench makes life easy

How the heck did you fit an impact wrench in the engine head area? much praise. I had the hardest time trying to get a regular ratchet/torque wrench when I was trying to get the nut from the cam gear to camshaft off on my sohc.

I also had the hardest time getting the damn thing not to spin w/ the turning of the ratchet (I have an auto - keep it at that ).

[fiznat]

If you already have the cam sprocket bolt off, it can sometimes get a little stuck on the end of the cam there. Just some light tapping with a rubber mallet should pop it off fairly easially.

[Chezedik]

I just took an adjustable wrench on the flat edges of the cam, put a ratchet on the end of the cam (for the bolt), and a six foot piece of pipe. After all, I believe it was Aristotle who said, "with a long enough lever, I could move the world".

[Chezedik]

oh, and leave it in the head, bolted down, that way you can jam your wrench against the side of the head, unless you feel brave enough to try to put a cam in a vise. Finally, I suppose if you had to (BAD IDEA!!!), you could leave the chain on it and hit the starter, like you might to take off the crank pulley.