Patent ID: 6912768

Claim:
A method for locking the camshafts of a dual overhead camshaft engine, said camshafts each mounted on an engine and each including an axially projecting shaft with a timing gear mounted on each shaft, each gear including an outside with timing teeth and an inside rim, said gears being generally coplanar transverse to the shaft axes, said method comprising the steps of: providing a tool with a first cross bar having first and second generally parallel studs projecting from opposite ends of the first bar; a second cross bar having third and fourth generally parallel studs projecting from opposite ends of the second bar, said studs being parallel and extending in the same direction from their respective cross bar, each stud having a frictional outside surface; an adjustable length connector assembly connecting the first bar and second bar for controlling the spacing of the first and second bars whereby the studs of the first bar and the studs of the second bar are frictionally engageable, respectively, with the inside rim of the first and second timing gears; and engaging the studs with said inside rims of said gears and holding the gears in a non-rotatable position by adjusting the connector assembly to wedge against the inside rims of said gears with one stud of the first and second cross bars engaging one gear and the other stud of the first and second cross bars engaging the other gears.