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Old 08-29-2026, 10:21 PM
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Originally Posted by Fifty150hs View Post
Any idea what the cam journals might look like with that much mileage?
Hit or miss, but usually not fatal. You can often see scoring on either the camshaft lobes or the cam trays and matching caps, which act as bearings.

Most of the time, the scoring does not extend above the surface of the lobes...
Scoring on the camshafts or trays is not as serious as it would be on the crankshaft.

I recently had an M54 exhaust cam polished out by a machinist for $100..
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