Originally posted by B6T:
Hey,
There is a rather noisy ticking sound coming from the rear cylinder bank. I'm almost positive it is a hydraulic lash adjuster. How difficult will this be to replace with the engine in the car? I know that in order to get to the lash adjusters, removal of the camshafts is necessary. If this engine had a timing belt, I would be able to index the position of the gear to the belt, then remove the gear from the belt and pull out the individual camshaft... but that isn't the case with a timing chain... or is it? Will I be able to unbolt the timing gear from the end of the camshaft and then slide the camshaft out, or do I have to pull the whole side of the engine off and then remove the timing chain?

Thanks guys/gals.




If you have a V6, Its a timing chain.....and replacing the lash adjusters (though possible) in the car is extremly hard to do.....Just look at the room you have to work with, especialy on the rear bank....to do it in the car, expect ATLEAST a weekend if your replacing them all if your a newbie to these cars.

Personaly,if theres no performance loss, i would just do a 3 liter swap when you got the money to do so....its a lot easier to take a motor apart outside the car, than inside the car.

But im sure theres a few well versed people on here that may be able to help you to do it...I ahve never done anything but change the pulse wheel while the motor is in the car...and that was still a pain in the butt.

Lupe

3.0 SVT hybrid...all the fixens...Track/Race ready very soon!!!!!! 20,000 + miles