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    03 5.7 hemi cam bearings?

    The tapping has been there a while. Gets some better when it warms up. My pushrods are quite worn so I plan to replace them.
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    03 5.7 hemi cam bearings?

    I have a tapping noise in my 03. 135000 miles on it. I did valve springs and seals. I heard these have issues with the cams wiping a lobe. Can anyone elaborate on that? Also if that's the case what are the chances the cam bearings are bad? I can pull the heads and do a new cam lifters and push...
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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

    Springs are vs1450 from melling. Ordered them from summit racing and got the stem seals from O'Reilly for like $20. Cost me $120 to do what the dealer said would be 1500
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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

    Yes I was. Just pull them off with a pliers and slide the new ones on and tap them down with a deepwell and a mallet. I'm going to do a cam and lifters next month because I have a tapping noise on cylinder 7 or 8
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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

    The last picture you can see how much room the brake booster gets you. The torque sequence on the rockers is center then second forward second aft then forward and then aft. Torque spec is 195 inch pounds or 16.25foot pounds.
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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

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    2003 ram 1500 5.7 hemi bad valve springs swap

    I have been doing some searching and found that the 2003 and early 04 hemis are knownot for their bad valve springs. Mine has 135000 miles on it so I decided to swap the springs before I dropped a valve. To do this you will need a hemi valve springs compressor. I rented mine for $15 from...
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