If the cam followers were that badly worn - what did the camshaft lobes (on
the cam) look like?
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From: <fmags@cox.net>
To: <healeys@autox.team.net>
Sent: Saturday, November 11, 2006 12:12 PM
Subject: engine noise fixed
> I'm happy to report that my engine noise is fixed on my Austin-Healey
> 3000.
>
> I pulled all of the tappets out and every one was pitted on the cam
> contacting
> surface. The rear ones had just a few pits and lifted out easily, but the
> first 4 were so bad that I had to work them up and down with a pair of
> needle
> nose vice grips and some penetrating oil to pop them out. The entire cam
> contacting surface of those were badly pitted/cratered and they were
> actually
> worn concave.
>
> When I took the rocker shaft off, the banjo bolt on the oil feed line was
> loose; the rcoker pedestal was completely stripped out. Someone had
> overtorqued it and stripped it before I got the car some 16 years ago. So
> I
> think alot of oil was probably seeping out around the fitting and not
> getting
> to the front of the rocker shaft under enough pressure.
>
> The tappets got worse the further from the oil feed. The rocker arms all
> looked good.
>
> Put in all new tappets and a new #4 oil feed pedestal and new crush
> washers
> for the banjo bolt, and also put in Castrol 20W-50. Runs well and very
> quiet
> in the valve train. Drove it around 75 miles last weekend.
>
> Thanks for all the help and advice from everyone on the list, and
> especially
> to Mike Glass from Glass Auto Restorations in Oklahoma City and Bruce
> Phillips
> from Healey Surgeons in Maryland.
>
> Thanks again,
> Frank Magnusson
> '65 BJ8
> Wichita, KS.
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