sutty_32 Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Hi, I'm currently re-building my 300tdi and want to change the camshaft bearings. Haynes just says take it to a specialist and RAVE is no help either. Is it just a case of drifting out the old ones (with quite a long bearing drift), and then drifting in the new ones or is it a bit more complicated than that? Thanks in advance, Chris Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Les Henson Posted April 15, 2010 Share Posted April 15, 2010 Camshaft bearing have to be carefully pressed in, in the right position for oil feed, and then have to be line-bored to match camshaft journal diameter. You could press them in yourself, but it's a bit of a risk. I got Turner Engineering to do mine - well worth the money in my opinion. If you aren't near enough to them, then a good machine shop should be able to do them. Les. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sutty_32 Posted April 16, 2010 Author Share Posted April 16, 2010 Thanks for the reply. I've tried a few local machine shops and some engine re-builders, the machine shops don't do that kind of work and the engine re-conditioning people don't have that equipment and weren't very keen, only do re-boring, head skimming etc and said that it'd be around £150-£200 if I found anywhere! I was only going to replace them as I had it all stripped and was there, there is a small score on the 1st bearing but they don't look too bad so I think I'll just leave them. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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