[speedkillz]

I have had to tear down the 3.0 this last two weeks. My son noticed that the oil pressure was lower than normal. We changed the oil...ect no change. He drove the car one more day and it can home on a flat bed truck...We though we broke a valve spring. When we couldn't find that we pulled the engine...pulled all the valve covers, adjusted the valves and put the engine back in only to hear the same knocking sound....fast forward to this week, pull engine and start the tare down. I figured that is was a vavle we just couldn't see it...sorry no it wasn't...we spun a bearing. Number 5 cylinder has a bunch of little marks from something hitting the piston and the head. what i can't tell. which gets me to the reason for this post. the tools required to remove the two can nuts on an early car are just too much money to use two times. I f I had a shop it might be different. So I made my own tool and you can do it to. I'll see if the pictures I took will upload, if they don't here's what I did. In the early cars you need to have a 46mm wrench or crows foot tool to remove the nuts. both are expencive 89.00 and the wrench is over 100.00 bucks, so I found a 1 7/8 3/4 drive socket wrench at the hardware store just down the street. I took my dremmell tool and cut away a piece of the socket to allow me to incert an 18mm wrench to keep the cam from turning when you remove the nut. I spent about a hour working on the cutting of the slot. It needs to be big enough to get the nut to break...so it took a while. also the portion you leave should be as thick as the nut. You are basicly cutting a window in the socket. when I was done we put the socket on the nut and it fit good. If i was able to find a 46mmsocket it would have been perfect. the last step was to hook my impact gun to the socket, hold the wrench in the window on the flats of the cam and give it a try....WOW...two short blasts with the gun and the nut moved. perfect. then I used a socket wrench to get it the rest of the way. If you have time and a dremmel you can make one too...total price was 12.99 for the socket, 8.99 for the 3/4 to 1/2 adapter. soo much easyer than I expected. Sorry for the poor pics. really cheap camera.