[Mgs] bad cam diagnosis

Aaron Whiteman awhitema at panix.com
Sun Feb 17 20:40:44 MST 2013


On Feb 17, 2013, at 7:36 PM, Barney Gaylord <barneymg at mgaguru.com> wrote:

> Holy crap.  It must have wiped out the dizzy drive gear and the oil pump
drive gear in a similar manner.  You're lucky it didn't lose oil pump drive
before losing distributor drive, in which case it would destroy crankshaft and
con rods.

Oddly, the dizzy and oil pump drive gears look ok. I'll replace them anyway,
but only the cam shows any wear. I do consider myself to be pretty fortunate
that (at least so far) this seems to be the only part with any kind of
damage.

--
Aaron


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